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The increase in Personals revenues was primarily due to the acquisition of certain assets of Mobile Lifestyles, Inc., an online provider of a variety of text alerts (i.e. daily horoscopes, jokes and relationship advice) and unlimited ringtones.
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The increase in Personals revenues was primarily due to the acquisition of certain assets of Mobile Lifestyles, Inc., an online provider of a variety of text alerts (i.e. daily horoscopes, jokes and relationship advice) and unlimited ringtones.
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Communicates with Me by "Personals" - I Beg to Be Sent to
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Despite the legal and ethical problem with prostitution, I think most people know that sex workers will find other ways to advertise on Craigslist, namely the Personals sections.
PCWorld 2010
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Besides the erotic services section there's a whole "Personals" section with subtitles such as: Women seek men, women seek women, men seeking men.
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Although the interview between them was brief, and in the presence of witnesses, she contrived to place in his hand a slip of paper, which informed him that our progress would appear in the New York Herald's "Personals" over certain initials, and so disguised as to be intelligible only to those who were initiated.
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson
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"Personals" of the "Ledger" and their mysterious meaning, beginning at the matrimonial advertisements last May? or of these letters in his breast-pocket from the widow of an affectionate and generous disposition and easy income on Callowhill, or from the confiding Estelle, whose maiden aunt dragonized her on Ridge Road above Parrish?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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Mason pulled out the Times classified ad section of the same date, ran hurriedly down the "Personals" and then gave a low whistle and said, "Look at this, Della."
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1936
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He was pointing to a paragraph in the "Personals" column of the New York paper.
The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Those disguised advertisements in the newspapers called "Personals" are of this evil character.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887
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