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The first was the American Culinary Federation, (ACF), national student chef of the year competition, featuring one woman contestant (of four) and, by-the-by, no women judges.
Rebecca Sive: These Girls Are Cooking With Gas and Cool as a Cucumber, Besides Rebecca Sive 2011
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More important to millions of American women who need his help, Rahm Emanuel could make history -- men's, too -- by being the first major American political leader to put women first, and, by-the-by, put America first, once again.
Rebecca Sive: Rahm Emanuel Has a Chance to Make Women's History Rebecca Sive 2011
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More important to millions of American women who need his help, Rahm Emanuel could make history -- men's, too -- by being the first major American political leader to put women first, and, by-the-by, put America first, once again.
Rebecca Sive: Rahm Emanuel Has a Chance to Make Women's History Rebecca Sive 2011
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The first was the American Culinary Federation, (ACF), national student chef of the year competition, featuring one woman contestant (of four) and, by-the-by, no women judges.
Rebecca Sive: These Girls Are Cooking With Gas and Cool as a Cucumber, Besides Rebecca Sive 2011
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Which is probably by-the-by, but it was something on my mind while working out the criteria for this Mind Meld.
MIND MELD: The Perfect SF/F/H Books to Give to People Who Don't Read SF/F/H 2009
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But when my doc sent me four years later to a great endocrinologist for something else, he told me, by-the-by, that I was just in the beginning of menopause!?
Menopause Defined aka TBTAM 2008
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Brian Johnson, by-the-by is completely awesome, having previously trashed a lot of modern music, and the musical CATS.
Brian Johnson Doesn’t Give A Flying Lick About Your Charity | Manolith 2010
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[Independent] I saw this weasel described somewhere as ‘impressive’ the other day, which left me thinking that I had seen more impressive turnips than he, but that is by-the-by.
The Terror Begins 2008
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[Independent] I saw this weasel described somewhere as ‘impressive’ the other day, which left me thinking that I had seen more impressive turnips than he, but that is by-the-by.
Archive 2008-01-27 2008
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Valkyrie emphasises the "how" of the Stauffenberg plot over the "why" the question of historical accuracy is by-the-by here - the film hangs together on its own terms.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009
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