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  • Egg Onion Float is a recipe devised by my parents decades ago when they were both medical students in Bombay.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Nupur 2005

  • Give my love to my uncle and Margaret, and tell them I hear the Float is sunk.

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

  • At the corporate end of the spectrum are some earnest-looking types from NESTA plugging a project they proudly announce as ‘fascinating’ (why not leave that to the audience to decide?); just outside the doors Ben Perry and Jacques Chauchat’s Milk Float is at the more industrial end of the creative ‘industries’ and wouldn’t look out of place with the Mutoid Waste Company.

    Ghosts in the media art machine « Squares of Wheat 2010

  • At the corporate end of the spectrum are some earnest-looking types from NESTA plugging a project they proudly announce as ‘fascinating’ (why not leave that to the audience to decide?); just outside the doors Ben Perry and Jacques Chauchat’s Milk Float is at the more industrial end of the creative ‘industries’ and wouldn’t look out of place with the Mutoid Waste Company.

    February « 2010 « Squares of Wheat 2010

  • A work called Float Like Butterfly at the Philadelphia Museum of Art selects a complex subject and treats it simply.

    Number 6 Fumbles Rachel Solar-Tuttle 2002

  • Scribd, which has become known for being the "YouTube for documents," has launched a new app today called Float, which the company says is designed to improve the mobile reading experience.

    CNET News.com 2011

  • Often, his pieces like "Grid Stack" (2007) and "Float" (2008) evoke an oversized game of pick-up sticks or Jenga, where dozens of seagreen sheets of glass are placed into piles that partially overlap each other yet sit slightly askew.

    Choosing Talent 2010

  • I'm loving the new Aesop album--I've been a fan since "Float" and I think the new album is his second best after "Labor Days."

    What's New In Dart's iPod #5 AKA 1nce Again Dart Adams 2007

  • "Float" repeated the technician, then he struggled up, unfastened his belt.

    Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959

  • The gala days are, besides Field Day in the autumn, the Indoor Meet in the spring at the end of the indoor practice, "Float" in June, and in winter, when the weather permits, an Ice Carnival on the lake.

    The Story of Wellesley Florence Converse 1919

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