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  • Gridiron Greats is a collection of former players — many of them Hall of Famers — who intend to be a pain in everyone's neck until someone does something.

    NFL players ignore Birk's plea, chance to aid their brethren 2009

  • The ultra-hip Tri Angle label, which sprang from the blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats, is home to several of these acts.

    Witch house and the musicians taking us back to the future Tim Jonze 2010

  • You can order Yeats Is Greats from the band's site.

    Music (For Robots): January 2006 Archives 2006

  • You can order Yeats Is Greats from the band's site.

    I've got something you should know (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • He wrote many poems while he was there, and graduated with a double first in Greats.

    Literary Oxford: Authors and Poets | The Creative Penn 2009

  • Sallie looked at her Grandfather Great, too, and wondered how it was that, though the Greats were the father and mother of her own dear grandmother, they had nice black hair, all smooth and shiny, while her grandmother and grandfather, too, had white hair.

    Sandman's Goodnight Stories Abbie Phillips Walker

  • And yet, when people comment on why a given woman's work isn't quite good enough to measure up to the "Greats," or when they talk about why there aren't many women in tables of contents, their reasons sound eerily like Russ's list.

    And so I begin my Joanna Russ journey girliejones 2010

  • "Greats" of course is a matter of opinion, but from my viewpoint they really were greats, even if the world is divided on the opinion, they were often recognized as greats in their fields.

    3 Down shipping troll 2009

  • "Greats" of course is a matter of opinion, but from my viewpoint they really were greats, even if the world is divided on the opinion, they were often recognized as greats in their fields.

    Archive 2009-06-01 shipping troll 2009

  • At Oxford, Wilde aced the classical "Greats" course and was steeped in the poetry and philosophy of what used to be called the Western canon.

    Wilde in the Stacks 2009

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