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It's an unfortunate fact of life-in-print that books get overtaken by events, and Horn Book editors have been busy blue-penciling reviews of all the astronomy books that haven't caught up with the events of August 26th of last year, a day that shook the solar system.
Keeping Up Roger Sutton 2007
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It's an unfortunate fact of life-in-print that books get overtaken by events, and Horn Book editors have been busy blue-penciling reviews of all the astronomy books that haven't caught up with the events of August 26th of last year, a day that shook the solar system.
Archive 2007-03-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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Ellis, in full view of the crowd below, conscientiously blue-penciling telegraph copy.
The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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Except in Texas, where the school board is blue-penciling history into a story concocted by the extreme right, celebrating Jefferson Davis and Phyllis Schlafly!
MotherJones.com Steve Brodner 2010
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