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Buck's famous call "has more to do with a vocation or professional calling [ie., the author's] than some mysterious pull toward nature," Jonathan Auerbach argues in '"Congested Mails': Buck and Jack's 'Call'":" Burying his humanity, like a bone, deep within his animal-hero, London thus manages in his naturalist masterpiece to dramatize vividly his position as a writer laboring in capitalism's mass market without having to recognize himself as such. "
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Then they had the light railways and the quays and no fishing boats; so a committee was formed, known as the Congested Board Committee, made up of a few men nominated by the British Government, experts, and by some Roman Catholic priests; the Lord Bishop of Rothesay is, I think, himself the Chairman of that Board.
The Irish Problem 1920
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Congested cities are fast becoming test tubes for scientists studying the impact of traffic fumes on the brain.
The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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Congested airports with poor, sometimes uncertain, weather threaten on-time arrivals and departures.
Southwest Expands Service Timothy W. Martin 2011
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Congested traffic conditions can make rowing a manual and working a clutch pedal a tedious chore.
Save the Manuals! The virtues of shifting gears yourself 2010
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Congested cities, in which people have to carefully calculate crosstown trips, were the result.
D.C. Transportation chief Gabe Klein tried to restore balance in District travel Robert Thomson 2010
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Congested traffic conditions can make rowing a manual and working a clutch pedal a tedious chore.
Save the Manuals! The virtues of shifting gears yourself 2010
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Congested cities, in which people have to carefully calculate crosstown trips, were the result.
D.C. Transportation chief Gabe Klein tried to restore balance in District travel Robert Thomson 2010
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Congested Newark is a major hub for Continental, which has the bulk of the 442 daily flights the two operate in and out of that New York City-area airport.
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Congested ports in Australia and other bottlenecks have tightened supplies and made access to infrastructure important as well.
Walter Energy Is in Talks to Buy Western Coal for $3.24 Billion Kris Maher 2010
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