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They'll get satisfaction when, after pining for foreign shores, the eager expat returns to them in 1921 and, armed with an introduction from Sherwood Anderson, immediately begins befriending the literary great and near-great.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Ernest Hemingway Writes Good Letters Home and Elsewhere, 1907-22 David Finkle 2012
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They'll get satisfaction when, after pining for foreign shores, the eager expat returns to them in 1921 and, armed with an introduction from Sherwood Anderson, immediately begins befriending the literary great and near-great.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Ernest Hemingway Writes Good Letters Home and Elsewhere, 1907-22 David Finkle 2012
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They'll get satisfaction when, after pining for foreign shores, the eager expat returns to them in 1921 and, armed with an introduction from Sherwood Anderson, immediately begins befriending the literary great and near-great.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Ernest Hemingway Writes Good Letters Home and Elsewhere, 1907-22 David Finkle 2012
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They'll get satisfaction when, after pining for foreign shores, the eager expat returns to them in 1921 and, armed with an introduction from Sherwood Anderson, immediately begins befriending the literary great and near-great.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Ernest Hemingway Writes Good Letters Home and Elsewhere, 1907-22 David Finkle 2012
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You can apologize for the Caps by saying a hot goalie beat a near-great team.
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Like Wallace (once "a near-great junior tennis player") Markovits has athletic credentials.
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He's never made a bad album and has a couple of near-great ones to his credit but has remained just a cult favorite.
Nightlife Agenda 2010
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It's a shame how far Zwick has fallen, since his one near-great film, 1989's GLORY. and not everyone agrees on that either
Defiance Ed Howard 2009
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I haven't read his whole output, but I've heard that many of his other books are also great and many that I've read are near-great.
WTF: Stephen King Is Planning a Sequel to The Shining?! | /Film 2009
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This wasn't Ringling Brothers, but the fashion circus -- six days of spring collections by Seventh Avenue's great, near-great and not-so-great designers, who, for the first time, showed their wares in a single venue, two billowing tents set up in the shadow of the New York Public Library.
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