American friends service committee
a social-service organization founded 1917 by the Religious Society of Friends: Nobel Peace Prize 1947.
Abbreviation: AFSC, A.F.S.C.
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See under . any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam) noun any tree of the betulaceous genus Carpinus, such as C. betulus of Europe and Asia, having smooth grey bark and hard white wood the wood of […]