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  • February 23, 2008 at 5:40 am ooooh, Ambercat ! mai daddee used 2 say dis 2 me all da time-is from poem ? nebber gnu whence it cometh frometh.

    Bird watchin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The child's foot treading lightly over the graves is the type of the _time-is_ triumphing over the _time-was_.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • One of the most effective pieces of propaganda to Poland-where they are having a terrible time-is when we broadcast like this: Look here, we know how you are suffering.

    How Goes The War? 1942

  • The point there, of course, you go back to the same thing all the time-is that ordinarily under reasonably normal conditions, trade flows from one country to another and these international balances are being settled with goods, or a great part of them.

    International Trade 1934

  • That river journey for those-who have the time-is unforgetable in many ways as you stop every day or two at the large number of ancient and more interesting places which abound on the route.

    The Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route 1920

  • Otherwise such foundation as human reason rests upon-that is to say, the current opinion of those whom the world appraises as reasonable and agreeable, or capable of being agreed with for any time-is sapped; the whole thing tumbles down, and we may have square circles and round triangles, which may be declared to be no longer absurdities and contradictions in terms, but mysteries that go beyond our reason, without being contrary to it.

    God the Known and God the Unknown Samuel Butler 1868

  • His work ethic-as well as his sheer ability to keep two or three mind-blowingly complex projects on track at any one time-is staggering.

    Slate Articles Bill Wyman 2012

  • The obvious conclusion is that the government has been claiming that geolocation information-most likely, data about which cell phone tower users are near at any given time-is a "business record" that can be obtained under section 215.

    Ars Technica Timothy B. Lee 2011

  • Mondoville-following the story with much interest for some time-is not publishing stories for a while, and so is keeping their comments under 140 characters.

    Torontoist 2010

  • And doing it at scale-meaning always returning customized content and advertising to millions of consumers in real time-is an extraordinary challenge because it requires managing location data and content at a level of accuracy that today's online search algorithms are just beginning to grasp.

    MyAppleMenu 2010

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