vestigal

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Curtis: I recall the vestigal space on 1st ship … a 2 cell brig below A-gang berthing side by side with the ...

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  • Things like vestigal organs (tailbone, appendix) prove that we are products of evolution. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Irving Housing Blog hardly needs links at this point; it is a force and focus of attention for those trying to understand just how deeply WASF, but going to IrvineRenter's blog is like getting to watch every last wreck on the highway you wanted to stop to ghoul over, but somehow found yourself restrained by vestigal good taste. —  The Inverse Square Blog
  • This seems to me to have been a wrong turn, a cultural appendix -- a vestigal organ apart from the progress of signification that so many other workers have more successfully explored. —  this Public Address 4.0
  • Byron Audler: An uptake that runs from the sixth deck up to the 0-8? is not a "vestigal" space .... —  Neptunus Lex
  • Curtis: I recall the vestigal space on 1st ship … a 2 cell brig below A-gang berthing side by side with the ... —  Neptunus Lex
 

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