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  • The use of sids is now so routine that we can hardly believe we ever did without them.

    Ten Years Later 2005

  • The use of sids is now so routine that we can hardly believe we ever did without them.

    Ten Years Later 2005

  • I really think think she is racist. she always portrays herselfe as a latino. she was born in new york that makes her an american. not a latino. why is she so afraid to call herselfe a american woman. both my grandparents on both sids were born in Ireland.

    Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings 2009

  • I had a baby boy to die of sids in 1983 he was born with out a thyroid gland also and had to take thyroid replacement meds synthyroid He had a small hole his heart that would have eventually closed up they thought.

    SIDS linked to brain chemical 2010

  • South medow and fourty Acors of land nere Wonchesix & a pece of enteruile caled Johns Jump & Bridge medow on both sids ye Brook.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various

  • This was thought so reasonable, yt when ye greatest of you in adventure (whom we have much cause to respecte), when he propounded conditions to us freely of his owne accorde, he set this downe for one; a coppy wherof we have sent unto you, with some additions then added by us; which being liked on both sids, and

    The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876

  • Sometimes he stood at the back of a baker's oven, for he knew all the haunts of heat about the city; sometimes he buried himself in the sids (husks of oats) lying ready to feed the kiln of a meal-mill; sometimes he lay by the furnace of the steam-engine of the water-works.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • It's na'e won'er she kens naething aboot poetry but the meeserable sids an 'sawdist an' leavin's the gran 'leddies sing an' ca 'sangs!

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • Whilst I did sing they hooped and hollowed on all sids.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • I just recently zipped a drawing with sids inserted to avatech support, who sent it to autodesk, and they saw the aerials on my drawing.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

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  • acronym: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. SIDS rates have been dramatically cut in the U.S. in recent years through the "Back to Sleep" campaign.

    April 22, 2009