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  • [Bruce provides wildly wrong answer, say, the "Tumtum" method]

    CHE > Latest news 2010

  • [Bruce provides wildly wrong answer, say, the "Tumtum" method]

    CHE > Latest news 2010

  • The believers' beavers come from places like Tumtum, Wash., where Amanda Parrish checked beaver traps one morning early this month by the Spokane River.

    With Trouble on the Range, Ranchers Wish They Could Leave It to Beavers Joel Millman 2011

  • I cringe at the memory of the dialogue I had coming out of Tumtum's African-American residents (something about Martin Luther King Jr. 's visit to Tumtum during the civil rights era) and I have a vague memory of Lollipop Dragon wearing a yarmulke and talking about Yom Kippur.

    Danny Miller: Touching the Face of God: Remembering the Challenger 2008

  • The hero will turn out to be the Sun-god in one of his _Avatars_; and the Tumtum tree the great Ash _Ygdrasil_ of the Scandinavian mythology.

    The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903

  • He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum gree, And stood awhile in thought.

    Through the Looking Glass 1899

  • It is unclear which company logged the trees off the top of Tumtum, which Eklund is calling "a 360-acre site with 360-degree views" in her marketing literature.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Unlike St. Helens, Tumtum isn't likely to erupt, Montierth said.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Eklund is selling Tumtum Mountain, a symmetrical, cone-shaped hill in northern Clark County, near the tiny community of Chelatchie Prairie.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Listed at $699,900, the asking price for the 1,400-foot-tall Tumtum has dropped about 50 percent from its earlier price of $1.4 million.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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