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  • Our unit, Twenty-second Marine, came by boat afternoon of day one.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • Our unit, Twenty-second Marine, came by boat afternoon of day one.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • One secretary called and said that the car she was in had been stuck on Twenty-second Street for more than a half hour in the same spot.

    Color Me Grey Michelle Janine Robinson 2010

  • In those days the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Monstrumology—or “the Society,” as it was informally known—was headquartered on the corner of Twenty-second and Broadway, in an imposing structure designed in the neo-Gothic tradition, with narrow arched windows and doorways, soaring turrets, and snarling gargoyles hunkered at the cornices.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • In those days the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Monstrumology—or “the Society,” as it was informally known—was headquartered on the corner of Twenty-second and Broadway, in an imposing structure designed in the neo-Gothic tradition, with narrow arched windows and doorways, soaring turrets, and snarling gargoyles hunkered at the cornices.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • Then the Twenty-second Amendment 1951 limited the president to two terms, as the ratifying conventions of Virginia, New York, and North Carolina had proposed.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • A week later, under questioning, Eisenhower revealed he had consulted the Department of Justice several hours after the press conference, and it had tendered an opinion that it was indeed constitutional under the Twenty-second Amendment, which barred him from seeking a third term as president, for Eisenhower to be elected vice president.

    Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

  • Then the Twenty-second Amendment 1951 limited the president to two terms, as the ratifying conventions of Virginia, New York, and North Carolina had proposed.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • In 1901 Black acquired "a tiny triangle of land -- it measured 9,000 square feet -- just south of Madison Square, at the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, and bordered on the south by Twenty-second Street."

    Book review of "Flatiron," about a Manhattan landmark 2010

  • I got dressed and walked in the freezing rain from Twenty-second Street to Union Square looking for someplace that would sell me a gel or ointment for skin rashes.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

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