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Examples
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"What's selling is the cream of the crop, and they sell fast," says Steve Capen, a real-estate agent with Keller Williams Realty in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Buyers' Market? Stressed Sellers Say Not So Fast Nick Timiraos 2011
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At the conference where I gave my talk that mentioned recipes and ingredients, I met Edgar Capen, co-author of a classic paper that coined the term "winner's curse" for auctions.
Overconfidence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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During winters in the mid-Atlantic region, when no one was growing food, bricks were a cash crop for farmers, Capen said.
Brick facades are sturdy, but keeping them that way requires care 2010
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Capen keeps many aged examples of local brick, including one from an 1800 farmhouse in Frederick with a hoofprint impression likely made by a farm animal when bricks were lying out to dry before being fired in a wood kiln.
Brick facades are sturdy, but keeping them that way requires care 2010
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At the conference where I gave my talk that mentioned recipes and ingredients, I met Edgar Capen, co-author of a classic paper that coined the term "winner's curse" for auctions.
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"Your old chum, Capen Triggs, asked me how I should like to take a bit of a trip with him, and I thought, as I hadn't much to keep me, I'd take his offer; and, as he's stopped at Plymouth for a day or so, I made up my mind to come so far as here and see for myself if some of what I've been told is true."
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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-- To the right, you beholds the gallant 'ero, Lord Nelson, him as lost his harm, a just fallin' in the harms of Capen 'Ardy and
Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale
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Capen bent over him and gently moved the bandage on his face.
Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Capen occupied his mind with speculations concerning the patient.
Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Sympathy for the sufferer he felt, of course, and yet he, as well as Dr. Parker and old Capen, had heard enough to realize that the world would be none the worse for losing this particular specimen of humanity.
Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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