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astraddle

[uh-strad-l] / əˈstræd l /


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Astraddle this situation, which the Government has at last given full recognition after years of such temporizing as the mail subsidies, sits ruddy Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime stock speculator, cinemagnate and SEC chairman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astraddle one reflecting pool is a trio of Alexander Calder stabile-mobiles, whose balancing paddles are propelled sporadically by water jets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astraddle on Tono-Bungay, he flashed athwart the empty heavens—like a comet—rather, like a stupendous rocket!—and overawed investors spoke of his star.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)




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