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The company aims to break into large chain stores with its coffee, which will be sold under the name Forty Below Joe, and possibly with other nascent products, like low-calorie dots and vanilla yogurt dots.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Forty is just the number of years I've been around this burg.
A Scintillating Rant About Small Flashing Lights « PubliCola 2010
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"We'll be in Forty Mile in forty minutes, and then -- cursed little devil!"
TOO MUCH GOLD 2010
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I drove my four yoke of oxen across the Plains in Forty-nine and lost nary a one.
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"Like Argus of the Ancient Times," and told them of the great emigration across the Plains in Forty-nine.
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"We'll be in Forty Mile in forty minutes, and then -- cursed little devil!"
Too Much Gold 2010
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"Gold is where you find it, son, as I should know who was mining before you was born, 'way back in Forty-Nine," was his reply.
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Sounds precisely like the true version of Kim Stanley Robinson's Khembalung in "Forty Signs of Rain": A small island off coast of India that is slowly being flooded by rising tides.
New Kiribati 2008
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"Like Argus of the Ancient Times," and told them of the great emigration across the Plains in Forty-nine.
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I drove my four yoke of oxen across the Plains in Forty-nine and lost nary a one.
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