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I do not mean to write either note or essay to any future edition of any poems you may publish in my Life-time.
Letter 59 2009
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Life-time contributions have dominated, although the classification is ambiguous since life-time contributions may have consisted of specific themes (such as in the case of Leontief).
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969-2006 2010
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Life-time friendships begun in Meinong's Viennese academic period included those with the musicologist Guido Adler and the philosophers (also his pupils) Christian von Ehrenfels, Alois Höfler, and Anton von Oelzelt-Newin.
Salvation Santa 2009
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- Life-time achievement award (third): Trevor Webster of
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You may again take one half out of the Glass, and make projection, setting the other half in again, as hath been taught, so may you work all your Life-time, for the poor, and perform other duties to Gods
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_ Not yet, but I design it one shall last its Life-time: Nay, you shall not see it -- Look, _Gardee_, how he teazes me!
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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House, a right in my Cellar, Halfe the Garden, also the Privilege of water at the well & yard room and to bake in the oven what she hath need of to improve her Life-time by her.
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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Thus "a dramatick Abuse is rivetted in the Audience, a" Jest is improv'd into an Argument, and Rallying "grows up into Reason: Thus a Character of Scandal" becomes almost indelible, a Man goes for a Blockhead "upon Content; and he that's made a Fool in" a Play, is often made one for his Life-time.
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What I most complain'd of was, his irreconcilable Disaffection to me upon it, whom he could not reasonably blame for standing in my own Defence; that not to endure me after it was a Reflection upon his Sense, when all our Acquaintance had been Witnesses of our former Intimacy, which my Behaviour in his Life-time had plainly shewn him I had a mind to renew.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889
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S.G. G.odrich, known in letters as "Peter Parley," in his _Recollections of a Life-time_, 1856, describes the part of the movement which he had witnessed as a boy in Fairfield County,
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