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In fact, the safest crib is one that has a firm mattress, a snug-fitting mattress pad, a fitted crib sheet, and nothing else--no bumper guards, stuffed animals, pillows, quilts, blankets, or sleep positioners wedge-shape pieces of foam meant to keep infants in a secure sleeping position.
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In fact, the safest crib is one that has a firm mattress, a snug-fitting mattress pad, a fitted crib sheet, and nothing else -- no bumper guards, stuffed animals, pillows, quilts, blankets, or sleep positioners (wedge-shape pieces of foam meant to keep infants in a secure sleeping position).
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It was a simple wedge-shape of metal on four low caterpillar tracks.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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The boat is a wedge-shape, and there are four distinct and discrete oval people sitting in it, going somewhere.
Baby clothes! And baby art. radegund 2006
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I stepped into the small brick room which was barely four feet across at the far end and about eight feet long, narrowing in a wedge-shape towards the door which was set into one of the long walls.
Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987
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It was to make the column rules wedge-shape instead of the type.
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis
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In Sir Rowland Hill's device the type was cast wedge-shape; that is, narrower at the bottom.
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis
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As to wedge-shape larger than could very well be called an "ax":
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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With the wedge-shape occasioned in the lowest human types there occurs a further remarkable phenomenon in the increased size of the foetal head accompanying the contraction of the pelvic outlet.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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The leaves are bipinnate, leaflets wedge-shape, trifoliate, and glaucous; the foliage very dense, having a pretty drooping habit.
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