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  • Another surprise: the battery-powered chain saw became a turn-to tool after a storm felled a lot of tree branches.

    Adventures With Home Gadgets (and Slug Eggs) Gwendolyn Bounds 2010

  • Another surprise: the battery-powered chain saw became a turn-to tool after a storm felled a lot of tree branches.

    Adventures With Home Gadgets (and Slug Eggs) Gwendolyn Bounds 2010

  • Another surprise: the battery-powered chain saw became a turn-to tool after a storm felled a lot of tree branches.

    Adventures With Home Gadgets (and Slug Eggs) Gwendolyn Bounds 2010

  • So what does your favorite turn-to food say about you?

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • So what does your favorite turn-to food say about you?

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • This will become your turn-to food—that is, the food you turn to when you feel angry, frustrated, mad, sad, or upset—as well as the one that will help you feel better about the nutritional mistakes you may have just made.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • This will become your turn-to food—that is, the food you turn to when you feel angry, frustrated, mad, sad, or upset—as well as the one that will help you feel better about the nutritional mistakes you may have just made.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • This will become your turn-to food—that is, the food you turn to when you feel angry, frustrated, mad, sad, or upset—as well as the one that will help you feel better about the nutritional mistakes you may have just made.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • So what does your favorite turn-to food say about you?

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • Hows'ever, my lad, "says I," take my advice -- bring your hammock an 'chest into the fok'sle; swap half your fine clothes for blue shirts and canvas trowsers; turn-to ready and willing, an' do all that's asked you -- you'll soon find the differ 'twixt the men and a few petty officers an ''prentices half out their time.

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

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