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The post is unclear, but the first-mentioned rejection can only be from Twilight Zone magazine about which the author complains bitterly for the first part of his post, and calls former Twilight Zone Editor and author T.E.D.
June 2010 2010
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I think I'm going to check and see who CNN has do these polls and when I see the first-mentioned names, I will not take them seriously, but with UNH I will ...
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | CNN/UNH Poll: Obama Rockets To Ten-Point Lead 2009
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Safety is one of the main arguments of the Complete Streets coalition (NRDC is a member) for making roadways more accessible to all types of users, not just drivers ( "complete streets improve pedestrian safety" is the first-mentioned reason offered in the Coalition's FAQs explaining its agenda).
F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Distracted Driving Is Also an Enviromental Issue 2009
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The first-mentioned sounds like those flash experiments that have been discussed here earlier.
"Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Futility Closet offers this "singular coincidence":On the 13th of February 1746, as the records of the French criminal jurisprudence inform us, one Jean Marie Dunarry was brought to the scaffold for murdering his father; and, strangely enough, on the 13th of February, 1846, precisely one hundred years later, another Jean Marie Dunbarry, a great-grandson of the first-mentioned criminal, paid the same penalty for the same crime.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Futility Closet offers this "singular coincidence":On the 13th of February 1746, as the records of the French criminal jurisprudence inform us, one Jean Marie Dunarry was brought to the scaffold for murdering his father; and, strangely enough, on the 13th of February, 1846, precisely one hundred years later, another Jean Marie Dunbarry, a great-grandson of the first-mentioned criminal, paid the same penalty for the same crime.
The More Things Don't Change, The More They Stay the Same 2008
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Let those who supply others 'places in this and the first-mentioned council first be paid out of the goods of those whom they have condemned to death, and also out of the fines of which any are mulcted.
A Political Treatise 2007
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In the case of the first-mentioned boy, he works at a comics house that has a gay manga line, which is one of the places I'd wanted to show VACATION IN IBIZA to anyway ... the only problem is: he only speaks Italian, and I dont 'always understand him, since I don't speak Italian (I can parse it sometimes, thanks to Spanish and my high school Latin classes)
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004
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When the Board withdrew its support, many of the missionaries returned to America; some, especially the secular members, went into other positions on the group, while the two first-mentioned and two or three besides, remained as pastors of native congregations.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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The distrait promoter at once decided to try not only Bailey and Kaffrath, but Videra; but even as he drove toward the office of the first-mentioned Cowperwood was personally busy reaching him by telephone.
The Titan 2004
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