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  • Unparalleled in the federal government, NASA's mission is bounded only by the expanses of the heavens and limited only by the human imagination.

    NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives 2009

  • According to the OED (yes, I know, argument by etymology, always a suspect maneuver, but then again, it is the Unparalleled Playland That Is The Oxford English Dictionary we're talking about), this use of count dates only from 1885: 1885 PROCTOR Whist App. 186 Many doubt whether good play really counts much at Whist.

    Word Count Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • According to the OED (yes, I know, argument by etymology, always a suspect maneuver, but then again, it is the Unparalleled Playland That Is The Oxford English Dictionary we're talking about), this use of count dates only from 1885: 1885 PROCTOR Whist App. 186 Many doubt whether good play really counts much at Whist.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • "Unparalleled political success in exchange for your immortal soul."

    MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles. Again. MP Nunan 2011

  • Unparalleled reggae will be provided by Mikey Dread and Ras Kayleb of the Channel One Soundsystem while Skream & Benga bring Joker & MC Nomad & Artwork to set up the stall for dubstep.

    Clubs picks of the week Patric Baird 2010

  • Unparalleled in the federal government, NASA's mission is bounded only by the expanses of the heavens and limited only by the human imagination.

    NASA exists as a paradox, a quandary, a political dilemma - NASA Watch 2009

  • Unparalleled landscapes have harbored the indigenous population long before the Spanish arrived in the 16th Century, and these communities depended upon the abundant natural resources for sustenance, continuing a lumbering tradition without impairing the ecological balance.

    The Meseta Purepecha 2008

  • Korea (Cho-sen in ancient times) served also as an offstage presence in London's futuristic "The Unparalleled Invasion" (McClure's, July, 1910), and as the backdrop for "A Nose for the King" (originally titled "The Nose"), a fable in which a politician named Yi Chin Ho, who had "diverted" 10,000 strings of cash from the government, is in jail awaiting execution by beheading.

    “I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.” 2008

  • At the writing of "An Unparalleled Invasion," London wrote of the "fecundity of her [China's] loins" that by 1970 had produced a half-billion in population.

    “. . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.” 2008

  • Unparalleled landscapes have harbored the indigenous population long before the Spanish arrived in the 16th Century, and these communities depended upon the abundant natural resources for sustenance, continuing a lumbering tradition without impairing the ecological balance.

    The Meseta Purepecha 2008

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