2 QUOTES WITH «MIDDLING»
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middling.
Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDDLING»
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middling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
middling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dream of Fair to
Middling Women
Beckett submitted the novel to several English publishers, all of whom found it too scandalous, too risky (or, said some, too risque), or too literary. Subsequently Beckett put the work aside, although he pilfered from it from time to time.
Samuel Beckett, Eoin O'Brien, Edith Fournier, 2011
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The
Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the ...
According to their national myth, all Americans are "middle class," but rarely has such a widely-used term been so poorly defined. These fascinating essays provide much-needed context to the subject of class in America.
Burton J. Bledstein, Robert D. Johnston, 2001
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The
Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in ...
To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce.
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Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and
Middling Chinese Modernity
This book is a cross-cultural critique on the problem of the liberal cosmopolitan in modern Chinese intellectuality in light of Lin Yutang’s literary and cultural practices across China and America.
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Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish ...
Telling the stories of those who quietly conducted the business and built the livelihoods that made their societies prosper or fail, this account shows how one Scots-Irish American family, the Hammills--millers, wagon makers, and ...
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The
Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society, and Politics ...
Urban Association and the Middling Sort; J.Barry - Professions, Ideology and the Middling Sort in the late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries; C.Brooks - The Middling Sort in London; P.Earle - The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century ...
Jonathan Barry, C. W. Brooks, 1994
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Mineral Processing Design
Middling particles are composed of grains of the desired mineral intergrown with
grains of one or more other minerals . Such particles pose a problem in ore
dressing because some have characteristics that cause them to be drawn into the
...
Baki Yarar, Z. M. Dogan, 1987
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The
Middling Sort and the Politics of Social Reformation: ...
Chapter 3 The Middling Sort as Intermediate Officers, Part 1 Historians have
traditionally studied the governance of early modern towns from the point of view
of the political elite, from the perspective of the mayors, bailiffs, and alderman
who ...
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Middling Fiction: Antebellum Magazine Story Style, ...
Finally, I describe the short fiction that Arthur placed in the Philadelphia-based Godey's Lady's Book in 1840 and 1841, and examine these tales' poetics in light of Poe's famous pronouncements on short story aesthetics.
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Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Cotton ...
Thus, barely middling fair would fall below middling fair and above strict good
middling, while fully good middling would be above good middling but below
strict good middling. The succession of the various grades is indicated in the list
below.
United States. Bureau of Corporations, Herbert Knox Smith, 1908
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDDLING»
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middling is used in the context of the following news items.
Cubs-Reds Preview
... acquire prior to next week's trade deadline, they might feel the recent call up of Kyle Schwarber is enough to give their middling offense a lift. «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
Chris Heston nearly makes history, Giants and Padres nearly come …
The Giants finally broke their trance against Padres right-hander Odrisamer Despaigne, a middling pitcher who all but dangled a swaying ... «Marin Independent Journal, Jul 15»
As Minnesota tops child well-being survey, Dayton vows more …
... latest Kids Count report shows areas still ripe for improvement, like a yawning achievement gap and a middling preschool enrollment rate. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
Jen sacrificed her career for family — now it's Ben's turn
These are middling credits compared to Affleck's boffo accomplishments. I'm sure this is a sad time for Garner and her young children. Affleck ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
In Biotech, Everyone's Going Public. What's Your Excuse?
At the time of the IPO postponement, the company was digesting a 128-person, three-month study with middling weight-loss results, and it was ... «Xconomy, Jul 15»
The Morning Ledger: Overseas Tax Revamp Gets on the Agenda
... showing weakness in its usually robust corporate-software division but strength in consumer-technology areas that are traditionally middling. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
Party Down: a US sitcom that richly deserves your time
Those weren't the only US comedies inspired by the life and times of a middling paper sales company. Launched in the same year was Party ... «Den Of Geek, Jul 15»
Finally, Momentum for Greater Density and More Affordable Housing …
middling and vague and merely Seattle nice. It tackles racism and classism head-on, makes sweeping calls for different kinds of zoning and ... «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
Heslip leads Canada over Dominican Republic
Triano had expected his squad to be a good defensive group and a middling Dominican squad couldn't get much going on that end, but the ... «Toronto Sun, Jul 15»
Iowa Editorial: Prison problems pile up in Iowa
Kestner's escape plan was no more sophisticated than a middling TV script. On July 5, he squeezed through a plumbing tunnel to the roof, then ... «Muscatine Journal, Jul 15»
