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The team over at DCM came up with a brain-stretching dare this time.
be inspired librariane 2008
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The team over at DCM came up with a brain-stretching dare this time.
Archive 2008-12-01 librariane 2008
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There are tons and tons of mixed-up, brain-stretching references to real-life and television history, not to mention a few sf author references thrown in (Ellison, Strugeon).
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This volume, the Choice reviewer writes, "is yet another brain-stretching and assumption-challenging set of ideas from the Nora project, presented in a lavishly produced, beautifully illustrated, well referenced volume."
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This volume, the Choice reviewer writes, "is yet another brain-stretching and assumption-challenging set of ideas from the Nora project, presented in a lavishly produced, beautifully illustrated, well referenced volume."
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Accursed newspapers, with their accursed routine, came back to me; all the stories and legends that I had ever heard, all the facts that I had ever learnt, came to me in a fashion wonderfully contorted and distorted; sensations welded together in ghastly, brain-stretching conglomerates, instinct with individuality and personality, human but torturingly inhuman, crowded in upon me.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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The sheer, hard, brain-stretching work of the two or three years which followed I look back to now with delight.
Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918
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The sheer, hard, brain-stretching work of the two or three years which followed I look back to now with delight.
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885
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Littles ones can explore the "Body Worlds 2" and "The Brain" exhibits, test their reaction times, compete in brain-stretching puzzles and make take-home crafts.
The Clog 2010
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This volume, the Choice reviewer writes, "is yet another brain-stretching and assumption-challenging set of ideas from the Nora project, presented in a lavishly produced, beautifully illustrated, well referenced volume."
The Chicago Blog 2009
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