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Not suitable for the OED, but a shelf's worth of Aubrey/Maturin novels would probably look swell.
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Not suitable for the OED, but a shelf's worth of Aubrey/Maturin novels would probably look swell.
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Not suitable for the OED, but a shelf's worth of Aubrey/Maturin novels would probably look swell.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Not suitable for the OED, but a shelf's worth of Aubrey/Maturin novels would probably look swell.
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The "invisible bookshelf" is completely obscured by the books you put on it, creating the illusion of floating piles of books mysteriously affixed to your walls -- best of all is the charming franglais sales-copy that accompanies the shelf's listing at Singulier. com.
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In 1990, George H.W. Bush, calling himself "the environmental president," signed an order putting virtually all the U.S. outer continental shelf's oil and gas reserves in the deep freeze.
Drill! Drill! Drill! 2008
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Booppanon and Warnock both believe that the BookSnap — and cheaper versions to follow — will encourage people to scan their collections so they can quickly search through them and grab a shelf's worth of reading for a trip across the world or on the subway.
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Yet of the shelf's 1.76 billion acres, 85% is off-limits and 97% is undeveloped.
$4 Gasbags 2008
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Publishers have brought out a long shelf's worth of books about managing your life cheaply called things like "Frugal Food" or "How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day."
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Road lovers even have their own magazine, The Mother Road Journal, not to mention a shelf's worth of guidebooks and histories and even a bicycle-trail guide.
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