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Slater

City in central Missouri, 61 km/38 mi northeast of Sedalia; population (1990) 2,200. It is a trade and processing centre for grain, livestock, and dairy products and has some light manufacturing.

The US film actor Steve McQueen was born here.



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You remember that a stonemason, named Slater, walking from Forest Row about one o'clock in the morning--two days before the murder--stopped as he passed the grounds and looked at the square of light still shining among the trees.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, corkcutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
They were masons, carpenters, joiners, slaters, blacksmiths, and glaziers; and there was work enough to last them for a long time, for had they not their own houses to build when they had finished those for other people?
The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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