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  • Lucier (b. 1944) was invited to create the work by the North Dakota Museum of Art as part of its continuing series of commissions called the Emptying out of the Plains, which addresses the issue of rural depopulation in the upper Midwest.

    Art Knowledge News 2008

  • Enlarge+What is a Liquid/Solid: Gastric Emptying exam?

    Liquid/Solid: Gastric Emptying Exam 2010

  • Emptying drawers and chests and cupboards in a smash of splintered wood and shattered china.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Emptying drawers and chests and cupboards in a smash of splintered wood and shattered china.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Emptying filing cabinets would take far more time than carrying briefcases to a getaway car.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • A Liquid/Solid: Gastric Emptying exam is a test that measures the rate of digestion of solid food by the stomach.

    Liquid/Solid: Gastric Emptying Exam 2010

  • Emptying myself with dissolution, trying to alter the essence, to begin again where we had left off, as if to wind string back around a ball that lost its cover, and that would be all it took.

    the plural river Jerry Ratch 2011

  • Emptying drawers and chests and cupboards in a smash of splintered wood and shattered china.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Emptying filing cabinets would take far more time than carrying briefcases to a getaway car.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • "Emptying the tank every once in awhile is probably good for the prostate," Dr. Goldstein says.

    The Joy of Researching the Health Benefits of Sex Melinda Beck 2011

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