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You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.† (source)
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A new Acme had opened, and the bakery section always had a tray of free samples sitting on the counter.† (source)
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Wilson and Schooler took the first-, eleventh-, twenty-fourth-, thirty-second-, and forty-fourth-ranking jams—Knott's Berry Farm, Alpha Beta, Featherweight, Acme, and Sorrell Ridge—and gave them to a group of college students.† (source)
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When my husband left Twentieth Century, we came here and he took a job as head of the engineering department of Acme Motors.† (source)
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Woman is the guide to the sublime acme of sensuous adventure.† (source)
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Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have to sit here primly and be the acme of widowed dignity and propriety when she was only seventeen.† (source)
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BOOK 2 I In the spring of 1917, when Doctor Richard Diver first arrived in Zurich, he was twenty-six years old, a fine age for a man, indeed the very acme of bachelorhood.† (source)
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For although it might be tolerable if human reason and knowledge held themselves within earthly bounds and treated the subject-object experience as real within that sphere, the moment it reached out into the eternal riddle, into so-called cosmology or cosmogony, the joke was over, and presumptu-ousness had achieved the acme of monstrosity.† (source)
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The acme of bliss, which would have been a marriage with the tragedian, was not for her in this world.† (source)
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We may wonder whether at the acme and summit of the human progress these anachronisms will be corrected by a finer intuition, a closer interaction of the social machinery than that which now jolts us round and along; but such completeness is not to be prophesied, or even conceived as possible.† (source)
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The man was of huge frame, a giant whose every move suggested the acme of physical power.† (source)
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And so thoroughly did he learn the speech and thought of triumphant commercialism, and the ideals of material prosperity, that the picture of a lone black boy poring over a French grammar amid the weeds and dirt of a neglected home soon seemed to him the acme of absurdities.† (source)
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Just as "Uncle's" pickled mushrooms, honey, and cherry brandy had seemed to her the best in the world, so also that song, at that moment, seemed to her the acme of musical delight.† (source)
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In short, it praised the determined action of the Government as the acme of human wisdom and mercy, and exulted in the inauguration of an epoch of reasonable democracy free from the tyrannical fads of Socialism.† (source)
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Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you.† (source)
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It was the acme of German luxury—parsley soup, a ham omelette with sorrel trimmings, an oyster of veal stewed with prunes, delicious fruit, and sparkling Moselle.† (source)
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