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  • I mentioned the Siberian sand-bars that abounded with ancient mammoth bones; spoke of the large quantities of fossil ivory purchased from the Innuits by the Alaska Commercial Company; and acknowledged having myself mined six - and eight-foot tusks from the pay gravel of the Klondike creeks.

    A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE 2010

  • We piled the rest of the boxes in an eight-foot tower in a corner where they would remain, unpacked, for the next two years.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Arching through the air with perfect trajectory, the shot, an eight-foot baseline jumper, was one that Selvy made with regularity throughout his career.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • Simpson sealed the win by sinking an eight-foot birdie putt at the second extra hole, the par-four 17th, after Reavie had missed his attempt there from 23 feet.

    Luke Donald fails again in Boston leaving Webb Simpson to win play-off 2011

  • During elementary school, my final year of playing little league basketball on an eight-foot goal, I was the tallest and widest kid in the league, and my team won the championship game 31–27.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • During elementary school, my final year of playing little league basketball on an eight-foot goal, I was the tallest and widest kid in the league, and my team won the championship game 31–27.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • He was the guy who during his VP tenure ordered up those big-ass document shredders just because, and had the Mosler Company build the even bigger-assed, eight-foot high custom safes to tuck away secrets too awful and unbelievable to ever see day's light in our lifetimes.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • He was the guy who during his VP tenure ordered up those big-ass document shredders just because, and had the Mosler Company build the even bigger-assed, eight-foot high custom safes to tuck away secrets too awful and unbelievable to ever see day's light in our lifetimes.

    Look 'Pon The Devil's Brow...An Impossibility... 2009

  • Arching through the air with perfect trajectory, the shot, an eight-foot baseline jumper, was one that Selvy made with regularity throughout his career.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • Each week an elaborate photo booth backdrop is set up -- a Christmas tree lot theme with 40 eight-foot tall trees, a mock ER with faux surgeons, a larger-than-life giant robot made out of boxes and junk from SCRAP -- giving our guests the opportunity to model and update their Facebook profile photos and it has been so exciting to showcase the work and concepts of many local artists in that back room.

    Juanita MORE!: Juanita Gets Around Town Juanita MORE! 2012

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