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  • The first thing was that Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteen-thirties: he was the only man I ever heard of who was fired from the WPA for laziness.  (source)
  • First Thrilling Episode in the Annals of the Zycronian Wars.†  (source)
  • I read over my notes about John Draper, aka Captain Crunch, and the toy plastic whistle that had made him famous in the annals of hacker lore.†  (source)
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  • Translator's Note: For details, please see Alain Chenciner and Richard Montgomery, "A remarkable periodic solution of the three-body problem in the case of equal masses," Annals of Mathematics, 152 (2000), 881-901.†  (source)
  • It is an extraordinary case from the annals of the natural sciences that my father related to me as a child.†  (source)
  • One commentator, in London, had mentioned my painting in the same breath with the recovered Rembrandt: ...has drawn attention to more valuable works still missing, most particularly Carel Fabritius's Goldfinch of 1654, unique in the annals of art and therefore priceless ... I reset the computer for the third or fourth time and shut it down, and then, a bit stiffly, climbed in bed and turned out the light.†  (source)
  • Militants from Saeed and Nadia's country had crossed over to Vienna the previous week, and the city had witnessed massacres in the streets, the militants shooting unarmed people and then disappearing, an afternoon of carnage unlike anything Vienna had ever seen, well, unlike anything it had seen since the fighting of the previous century, and of the centuries before that, which were of an entirely different and greater magnitude, Vienna being no stranger, in the annals of history, to war, and the militants had perhaps hoped to provoke a reaction against migrants from their own part of the world, who had been pouring into Vienna, and if that had been their hope then they had succeeded, for th†  (source)
  • This is, I believe, likely to prove as important a day to the British empire as any in our annals.†  (source)
  • It would be the largest and costliest operation in the annals of warfare: 1.5 million combat troops committed to the initial assault waves, with reserves bringing the total to 4.5 million.†  (source)
  • My lord, when I was looking through the annals I came on another boy commander.†  (source)
  • Such lapses of memory were not uncommon in medical annals, he knew.†  (source)
  • The story, written by an Associated Press reporter, began: "Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, partners in crime, died on the gallows at the state prison early today for one of the bloodiest murders in Kansas criminal annals.†  (source)
  • And Dr. Bassiouni is above all—and let us not forget this—an exceptional surgeon, who has made his incontestable mark in the annals of surgery.†  (source)
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