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This allows everyone time to do things like make phone calls on behalf of Christine O'Donnell, write detailed memoirs, or painstakingly hand-craft a flock of paper cranes and position them to replicate the Battle of Waterloo, startling potential dates when they visit our apartments.
Dirty talk? New sex survey's surprising stats Alexandra Petri 2010
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After the storm pummeled much of a pine forest they had long relied on for timber and income, the monks hatched a fresh plan: They would hand-craft and sell caskets.
Coffins Made With Brotherly Love Have Undertakers Throwing Dirt 2010
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But, good news, posers worldwide can benefit from the lovely Kayan women of Myanmar ok, Burma, who can hand-craft spacers.
Stick A Fork In The Contest, It's Done: Announcing the Winner BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Insurgents hand-craft explosive devices and conceal them in roads, paths and walls.
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So instead of writing predetermined dialogue for characters that I thought up in my head, I decided to start with the people I wanted to work with and then hand-craft characters custom designed just for them.
Melissa Silverstein: Interview with Lynn Shelton, Director of Humpday 2009
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The cluster consists of a number of projects, including a taxi parking area, market stalls, a community health centre, a hand-craft centre and water supply.
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We must take every advantage of modern technology, but in no way be enslaved by it, recognizing above all else that the high quality of our products is achieved by hand-craft = ing.
The Marriage of Art and Technology in a Craft-Based Industry 1985
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Girls should learn the first lesson of hand-craft with the needle; boys may (and they will always prize the knowledge), but girls must.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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If hand-craft is of such worth, boys and girls must be trained in it.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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Boys need not be kept back to the hand-craft of the knife.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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