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  • Broadway veterans performed songs about galaxies and calculus ( "What the limit gives us if the work all checks, is what we call dy/dx ...

    Making Science Sexy 2010

  • The image of the dy was a mere construct, as easily generated as any other; but while the program ran, the mind existed, sensed, thought, reacted, conscious of what it was but seldom troubled thereby, usually enthusiastic, interested, anxious to dis -

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • The image of the dy was a mere construct, as easily generated as any other; but while the program ran, the mind existed, sensed,

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • He travels -- on the cheap, of course -- but still he travels, and discusses Venus of Milo, and 'Igh Art, and the philosophic questions of the "dy," and resolves all his meditations into the "motter" that

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • Tessibel always put "dy" to Dad to make it more effective -- and it was with the same sweet, serious voice, with which she would have pleaded with her own father, that she made familiar with the majesty of heaven.

    Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

  • Every night the death-watch has ticked in Mel'dy's room the endurin 'night.

    Melody : the Story of a Child Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • "Someb'dy's crawled through hyar, or been dragged through -- one o 'the two ways."

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • To stab, whilst chast fair Myrrha might ha 'dy'd. [image]

    The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689

  • It's been more than 44 years since Joe Jansen, founder and owner of Goody Goody, bought the Goo Goo liquor store on Greenville Avenue, added a "dy" to the end of each word, and turned it into a multimillion-dollar business with 12 stores spread across the area.

    Dallas Observer | Complete Issue 2009

  • An eSCM offers several cost-saving features (such as dy - namic pricing and requests for bids) and eliminates lengthy procurement procedures.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Batjaa_sh 2009

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  • A type of sediment rich in organic matter deposited in unproductive lakes.

    December 6, 2007

  • Dy. Chemical element symbol for Dysprosium.

    December 16, 2007