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Santa Monica

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Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. The RAND Corp., the noted think-tank, has its headquarters there. Santa Monica has a 3-mi (4.8-km) oceanfront beach that includes the Pier, with amusement rides and an aquarium. A museum of flying is in the city, and several state parks are nearby. Historic Route 66 ended in Santa Monica.
Santa Monica 

a city in the USA, on the Pacific Ocean, in California; an industrial suburb west of Los Angeles, on Santa Monica Bay. Population, 90,000 (1974). The city has an airport and enterprises of the aerospace industry. Santa Monica is an ocean resort.
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The truth was that as I sat in the Tyler library at Santa Monica I commenced to feel a trifle foolish and to wish that I had merely forwarded the manuscript by express instead of bearing it personally, for I confess that I do not enjoy being laughed at.
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It was a happy party that sailed north toward sunny, southern California, the old U-33 trailing in the wake of the Toreador and flying with the latter the glorious Stars and Stripes beneath which she had been born in the shipyard at Santa Monica.
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