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Irving

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Irving, city (1990 pop. 155,037), Dallas co., N Tex., a suburb of Dallas; inc. as a city 1952. Building supplies, chemicals, electronic equipment, and airplane parts are manufactured in Irving. The city has grown rapidly along with the expanding business community of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, profiting from the nearby oil, aerospace, electronic, engineering, and automobile industries. The prosperous business center, Las Colinas, which is headquarters to ExxonMobil, is also in the vicinity. Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team, and the Univ. of Dallas are in Irving, and Dallas–Fort Worth Airport borders the city on the west.

Irving

City (pop., 2000: 191,615), northeastern Texas, U.S. Established in 1903 and incorporated in 1914, the city developed into an industrial hub during the 1950s. A suburb of Dallas, it is the site of the University of Dallas and DeVry University as well as of Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys professional gridiron football team.



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Irving, who acted as my pioneer, and to whom I am greatly indebted for smoothing my path and lightening my labors.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
When I began to have literary likings of my own, and to love certain books above others, the first authors of my heart were Goldsmith, Cervantes, and Irving.
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Some day I'll be able to boast that I whipped the distinguished Paul Irving.
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