| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
107.42 |
1.1162 |
0.3340 |
189 |
1 |
107.42 |
2010-09-16 |
| 2. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
104.41 |
1.0630 |
0.3395 |
397 |
1 |
104.41 |
2011-11-08 |
| 3. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
101.84 |
1.0398 |
0.2850 |
110 |
3 |
85.75 |
2010-09-27 |
| 4. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
101.79 |
0.9691 |
0.3650 |
223 |
2 |
83.16 |
2011-11-01 |
| 5. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
100.87 |
1.0598 |
0.2568 |
196 |
1 |
100.87 |
2011-11-10 |
| 6. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
99.95 |
1.0462 |
0.2580 |
184 |
1 |
99.95 |
2011-11-08 |
| 7. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
99.21 |
1.0412 |
0.2587 |
225 |
1 |
99.21 |
2011-11-08 |
| 8. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
98.61 |
1.0296 |
0.2693 |
437 |
1 |
98.61 |
2011-10-31 |
| 9. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
97.90 |
1.0352 |
0.2510 |
341 |
1 |
97.90 |
2011-11-08 |
| 10. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
97.73 |
1.0240 |
0.2543 |
256 |
1 |
97.73 |
2011-11-08 |
| 11. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
96.47 |
1.0419 |
0.2223 |
261 |
1 |
96.47 |
2010-10-15 |
| 12. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
96.22 |
1.0941 |
0.1980 |
256 |
2 |
91.52 |
2011-11-05 |
| 13. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
95.14 |
0.9461 |
0.2967 |
193 |
1 |
95.14 |
2011-01-25 |
| 14. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
93.65 |
1.0711 |
0.1507 |
213 |
3 |
81.78 |
2010-09-27 |
| 15. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
92.11 |
0.9763 |
0.2297 |
289 |
4 |
78.82 |
2011-11-20 |
| 16. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
91.93 |
1.0596 |
0.1424 |
239 |
2 |
83.39 |
2010-10-15 |
| 17. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
91.90 |
1.1114 |
0.0896 |
247 |
5 |
83.84 |
2011-11-08 |
| 18. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
91.51 |
1.0669 |
0.1639 |
286 |
1 |
91.51 |
2011-11-05 |
| 19. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
91.48 |
1.0534 |
0.1469 |
357 |
1 |
91.48 |
2011-11-05 |
| 20. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
90.92 |
1.0696 |
0.1176 |
226 |
2 |
89.52 |
2011-10-31 |
| 21. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
90.61 |
0.9774 |
0.2083 |
196 |
2 |
86.38 |
2011-11-02 |
| 22. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
90.42 |
1.0189 |
0.1685 |
337 |
2 |
81.77 |
2012-08-15 |
| 23. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
90.08 |
0.9831 |
0.1939 |
222 |
1 |
90.08 |
2011-10-31 |
| 24. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
89.40 |
1.0016 |
0.1644 |
218 |
1 |
89.40 |
2011-11-08 |
| 25. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
89.12 |
0.9622 |
0.2111 |
392 |
3 |
78.54 |
2011-11-16 |
| 26. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
88.70 |
0.9566 |
0.2273 |
576 |
1 |
88.70 |
2011-11-08 |
| 27. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
88.23 |
1.0316 |
0.1273 |
333 |
1 |
88.23 |
2010-09-30 |
| 28. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
87.99 |
1.0417 |
0.1077 |
253 |
1 |
87.99 |
2010-09-15 |
| 29. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
87.65 |
0.9795 |
0.1679 |
308 |
2 |
79.41 |
2011-11-08 |
| 30. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
87.42 |
1.0768 |
0.1077 |
295 |
3 |
77.20 |
2011-11-09 |
| 31. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
87.31 |
0.9684 |
0.1772 |
388 |
1 |
87.31 |
2011-10-31 |
| 32. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
87.04 |
1.0270 |
0.1484 |
255 |
2 |
84.25 |
2010-10-22 |
| 33. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
86.78 |
1.0797 |
0.0506 |
210 |
1 |
86.78 |
2010-09-27 |
| 34. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
86.34 |
1.1014 |
0.0665 |
273 |
3 |
76.49 |
2010-10-22 |
| 35. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
86.10 |
1.0725 |
0.0802 |
233 |
2 |
82.47 |
2011-10-22 |
| 36. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
86.00 |
1.0390 |
0.0828 |
205 |
4 |
77.42 |
2012-08-15 |
| 37. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
85.84 |
1.0529 |
0.0705 |
351 |
2 |
79.04 |
2011-10-22 |
| 38. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
85.48 |
1.0523 |
0.0621 |
256 |
1 |
85.48 |
2012-08-15 |
| 39. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
85.36 |
1.0441 |
0.0745 |
252 |
2 |
80.55 |
2010-09-13 |
| 40. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
85.27 |
0.9912 |
0.1516 |
237 |
1 |
85.27 |
2012-08-15 |
| 41. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
84.83 |
1.0515 |
0.0567 |
250 |
1 |
84.83 |
2010-10-02 |
| 42. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
84.37 |
1.0486 |
0.0562 |
289 |
1 |
84.37 |
2010-09-27 |
| 43. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
84.36 |
0.9275 |
0.1731 |
211 |
2 |
72.36 |
2011-11-08 |
| 44. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
84.36 |
1.0211 |
0.1135 |
213 |
3 |
77.52 |
2010-10-22 |
| 45. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
84.23 |
0.9351 |
0.1616 |
190 |
1 |
84.23 |
2010-10-22 |
| 46. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
84.10 |
0.9997 |
0.1043 |
382 |
1 |
84.10 |
2011-11-10 |
| 47. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
84.04 |
1.0132 |
0.0777 |
143 |
1 |
84.04 |
2010-09-27 |
| 48. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
84.03 |
1.0213 |
0.0750 |
240 |
2 |
76.61 |
2011-11-11 |
| 49. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
83.92 |
0.9698 |
0.1612 |
397 |
1 |
83.92 |
2011-11-05 |
| 50. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
83.89 |
0.9687 |
0.1337 |
371 |
1 |
83.89 |
2010-09-07 |
| 51. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
83.88 |
0.9910 |
0.1084 |
295 |
3 |
74.02 |
2010-10-15 |
| 52. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
83.87 |
0.9776 |
0.1200 |
308 |
3 |
78.17 |
2011-11-08 |
| 53. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
83.82 |
1.0183 |
0.0728 |
191 |
2 |
78.27 |
2011-11-09 |
| 54. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
83.64 |
1.0577 |
0.0331 |
247 |
1 |
83.64 |
2010-09-07 |
| 55. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
83.55 |
0.9936 |
0.0993 |
311 |
1 |
83.55 |
2010-09-30 |
| 56. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
83.43 |
1.0053 |
0.0843 |
232 |
1 |
83.43 |
2011-11-08 |
| 57. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
83.18 |
0.9612 |
0.1271 |
256 |
3 |
80.92 |
2011-11-20 |
| 58. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
83.13 |
1.0496 |
0.0373 |
314 |
2 |
80.35 |
2010-09-16 |
| 59. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
83.01 |
1.0346 |
0.0934 |
244 |
2 |
71.08 |
2011-11-16 |
| 60. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
82.89 |
1.0033 |
0.0744 |
189 |
1 |
82.89 |
2011-11-08 |
| 61. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
82.76 |
0.9965 |
0.0814 |
168 |
3 |
67.50 |
2010-10-15 |
| 62. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
82.55 |
0.9894 |
0.0949 |
323 |
3 |
76.02 |
2012-08-15 |
| 63. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
82.46 |
1.0232 |
0.0911 |
236 |
1 |
82.46 |
2012-08-15 |
| 64. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
82.45 |
1.0261 |
0.0506 |
273 |
2 |
81.43 |
2011-10-22 |
| 65. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
82.44 |
1.0125 |
0.0637 |
224 |
5 |
70.29 |
2011-10-26 |
| 66. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
82.18 |
1.0013 |
0.0728 |
273 |
4 |
73.53 |
2011-10-22 |
| 67. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
82.13 |
1.0088 |
0.1043 |
396 |
1 |
82.13 |
2010-10-15 |
| 68. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
82.11 |
1.0454 |
0.0250 |
255 |
3 |
76.34 |
2010-10-15 |
| 69. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
82.11 |
1.0214 |
0.0473 |
166 |
1 |
82.11 |
2010-09-16 |
| 70. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
82.08 |
1.0615 |
0.0374 |
305 |
1 |
82.08 |
2011-11-10 |
| 71. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
82.08 |
0.9897 |
0.0817 |
274 |
2 |
75.69 |
2011-11-16 |
| 72. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
82.07 |
1.0547 |
0.0536 |
257 |
1 |
82.07 |
2011-11-01 |
| 73. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
81.89 |
1.0506 |
0.0494 |
277 |
3 |
78.47 |
2010-09-30 |
| 74. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
81.73 |
1.0368 |
0.0332 |
276 |
2 |
76.90 |
2010-09-27 |
| 75. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
81.38 |
0.9045 |
0.1602 |
235 |
1 |
81.38 |
2010-10-15 |
| 76. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
81.34 |
1.0787 |
-0.0161 |
237 |
3 |
76.50 |
2011-11-09 |
| 77. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
81.27 |
1.1068 |
-0.0035 |
393 |
1 |
81.27 |
2010-09-16 |
| 78. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
81.06 |
0.9342 |
0.1295 |
434 |
2 |
72.77 |
2011-10-31 |
| 79. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
80.96 |
1.0483 |
0.0076 |
227 |
1 |
80.96 |
2010-09-27 |
| 80. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
80.91 |
0.9681 |
0.0984 |
378 |
2 |
78.67 |
2011-11-01 |
| 81. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
80.75 |
1.0292 |
0.0256 |
262 |
1 |
80.75 |
2011-11-09 |
| 82. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
80.18 |
1.0168 |
0.0331 |
271 |
2 |
70.65 |
2010-09-27 |
| 83. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
79.48 |
0.9485 |
0.0925 |
236 |
1 |
79.48 |
2010-10-15 |
| 84. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
79.47 |
1.1296 |
-0.0614 |
252 |
2 |
74.84 |
2010-09-15 |
| 85. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
79.21 |
0.9411 |
0.0954 |
318 |
1 |
79.21 |
2010-10-15 |
| 86. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
79.16 |
1.0167 |
0.0251 |
378 |
1 |
79.16 |
2010-10-15 |
| 87. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
79.02 |
0.9430 |
0.0829 |
211 |
2 |
71.79 |
2011-10-22 |
| 88. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
78.88 |
1.0203 |
0.0144 |
261 |
1 |
78.88 |
2010-09-08 |
| 89. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
78.59 |
0.9653 |
0.0705 |
394 |
1 |
78.59 |
2011-11-05 |
| 90. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
78.34 |
0.9553 |
0.0761 |
430 |
2 |
73.30 |
2011-11-08 |
| 91. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
78.28 |
0.9966 |
0.0262 |
259 |
1 |
78.28 |
2010-10-02 |
| 92. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
78.20 |
1.0863 |
-0.0292 |
210 |
1 |
78.20 |
2010-09-27 |
| 93. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
78.18 |
1.0385 |
-0.0182 |
230 |
1 |
78.18 |
2010-10-02 |
| 94. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
78.15 |
0.9785 |
0.0464 |
335 |
1 |
78.15 |
2011-11-11 |
| 95. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
78.13 |
0.9780 |
0.0444 |
337 |
2 |
72.00 |
2010-09-27 |
| 96. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
78.03 |
1.0068 |
0.0166 |
358 |
3 |
72.62 |
2010-09-27 |
| 97. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
77.92 |
1.0788 |
-0.0658 |
171 |
2 |
61.53 |
2010-09-07 |
| 98. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
77.84 |
0.9398 |
0.0871 |
419 |
1 |
77.84 |
2011-11-08 |
| 99. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
77.79 |
0.8958 |
0.1257 |
322 |
2 |
71.19 |
2011-11-08 |
| 100. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
77.76 |
1.0384 |
-0.0315 |
183 |
1 |
77.76 |
2010-09-27 |
| 101. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
77.59 |
1.0264 |
0.0280 |
422 |
1 |
77.59 |
2012-08-15 |
| 102. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
77.54 |
0.9904 |
0.0638 |
203 |
1 |
77.54 |
2011-10-26 |
| 103. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
77.35 |
0.9758 |
0.0360 |
314 |
2 |
70.88 |
2011-11-01 |
| 104. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
77.28 |
1.0516 |
-0.0418 |
281 |
3 |
74.29 |
2010-10-23 |
| 105. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
77.18 |
0.9532 |
0.0543 |
258 |
1 |
77.18 |
2011-11-01 |
| 106. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
77.11 |
1.0150 |
0.0419 |
325 |
1 |
77.11 |
2011-10-22 |
| 107. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
77.10 |
0.9871 |
0.0429 |
227 |
1 |
77.10 |
2011-10-26 |
| 108. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
76.99 |
1.0399 |
-0.0284 |
294 |
1 |
76.99 |
2010-09-12 |
| 109. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
76.94 |
1.0669 |
-0.0283 |
213 |
1 |
76.94 |
2010-09-27 |
| 110. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
76.78 |
1.0907 |
-0.0845 |
303 |
1 |
76.78 |
2010-09-27 |
| 111. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
76.72 |
1.0214 |
0.0238 |
281 |
2 |
72.36 |
2010-09-27 |
| 112. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
76.71 |
1.0565 |
-0.0565 |
247 |
1 |
76.71 |
2010-09-27 |
| 113. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
76.70 |
1.0595 |
-0.0545 |
379 |
2 |
74.96 |
2010-09-27 |
| 114. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
76.53 |
0.9212 |
0.0823 |
323 |
1 |
76.53 |
2011-11-02 |
| 115. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
76.49 |
1.0131 |
-0.0173 |
225 |
1 |
76.49 |
2010-10-15 |
| 116. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
76.44 |
1.0613 |
-0.0614 |
266 |
2 |
74.73 |
2010-09-11 |
| 117. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
76.39 |
0.9855 |
0.0462 |
258 |
1 |
76.39 |
2010-09-16 |
| 118. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
76.17 |
1.0004 |
-0.0110 |
212 |
4 |
72.05 |
2010-09-30 |
| 119. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
76.10 |
1.0334 |
-0.0454 |
131 |
1 |
76.10 |
2011-11-08 |
| 120. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
76.07 |
0.9234 |
0.0761 |
346 |
2 |
72.74 |
2011-10-31 |
| 121. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
76.07 |
1.0677 |
-0.0432 |
284 |
2 |
72.91 |
2010-09-30 |
| 122. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
76.04 |
1.0684 |
-0.0449 |
253 |
1 |
76.04 |
2011-11-04 |
| 123. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
76.03 |
0.9908 |
0.0487 |
342 |
2 |
70.36 |
2010-10-22 |
| 124. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
76.01 |
0.9946 |
-0.0015 |
246 |
3 |
73.47 |
2010-09-16 |
| 125. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
75.99 |
1.0709 |
-0.0398 |
392 |
1 |
75.99 |
2011-11-08 |
| 126. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
75.95 |
1.1018 |
-0.1157 |
220 |
2 |
75.61 |
2010-09-30 |
| 127. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
75.76 |
1.0154 |
0.0244 |
351 |
4 |
72.18 |
2011-11-01 |
| 128. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
75.65 |
0.9844 |
0.0090 |
293 |
1 |
75.65 |
2010-10-15 |
| 129. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
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1.0297 |
-0.0440 |
249 |
1 |
75.52 |
2010-09-27 |
| 130. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
75.19 |
0.9064 |
0.0853 |
399 |
1 |
75.19 |
2010-09-27 |
| 131. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
74.90 |
0.9899 |
-0.0160 |
163 |
1 |
74.90 |
2011-11-10 |
| 132. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
74.79 |
0.9279 |
0.0558 |
317 |
1 |
74.79 |
2010-10-15 |
| 133. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
74.72 |
1.0141 |
-0.0015 |
304 |
1 |
74.72 |
2010-09-16 |
| 134. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
74.71 |
1.0218 |
-0.0486 |
268 |
1 |
74.71 |
2010-09-13 |
| 135. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
74.61 |
1.0284 |
-0.0103 |
282 |
2 |
73.02 |
2010-09-27 |
| 136. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
74.58 |
0.9905 |
0.0153 |
337 |
1 |
74.58 |
2011-01-25 |
| 137. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
74.56 |
0.9365 |
0.0390 |
248 |
1 |
74.56 |
2010-10-22 |
| 138. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
74.26 |
1.0288 |
-0.0265 |
300 |
2 |
73.44 |
2010-10-15 |
| 139. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
74.25 |
0.9649 |
0.0040 |
193 |
2 |
72.47 |
2010-10-15 |
| 140. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
73.91 |
0.9786 |
-0.0136 |
235 |
2 |
70.62 |
2011-11-02 |
| 141. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
73.89 |
1.0993 |
-0.1361 |
265 |
1 |
73.89 |
2011-01-23 |
| 142. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
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0.9514 |
0.0140 |
237 |
1 |
73.88 |
2010-09-27 |
| 143. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
73.74 |
0.9529 |
0.0510 |
269 |
2 |
70.93 |
2011-11-10 |
| 144. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
73.47 |
1.1323 |
-0.1389 |
341 |
1 |
73.47 |
2010-10-05 |
| 145. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
73.33 |
1.0314 |
-0.0343 |
452 |
2 |
72.65 |
2010-10-15 |
| 146. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
73.30 |
1.0083 |
-0.0067 |
273 |
1 |
73.30 |
2010-09-13 |
| 147. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
72.97 |
0.9089 |
0.0481 |
342 |
1 |
72.97 |
2010-09-07 |
| 148. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
72.89 |
0.9723 |
-0.0166 |
364 |
2 |
70.04 |
2010-09-10 |
| 149. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
72.86 |
0.9464 |
0.0103 |
323 |
1 |
72.86 |
2011-01-14 |
| 150. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
72.66 |
1.0774 |
-0.0990 |
304 |
1 |
72.66 |
2010-09-13 |
| 151. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
72.64 |
0.9597 |
-0.0069 |
347 |
2 |
70.52 |
2011-11-20 |
| 152. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
72.53 |
0.9772 |
-0.0334 |
217 |
1 |
72.53 |
2010-10-15 |
| 153. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
72.50 |
0.8105 |
0.1321 |
204 |
2 |
61.38 |
2012-08-15 |
| 154. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
72.44 |
0.9936 |
-0.0274 |
227 |
2 |
64.84 |
2010-10-15 |
| 155. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
72.26 |
1.0172 |
-0.0384 |
341 |
2 |
68.85 |
2010-09-16 |
| 156. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
72.25 |
0.8722 |
0.0743 |
285 |
1 |
72.25 |
2010-10-24 |
| 157. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
72.06 |
0.8826 |
0.0598 |
296 |
1 |
72.06 |
2011-10-22 |
| 158. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
71.80 |
1.0396 |
-0.1092 |
149 |
1 |
71.80 |
2010-09-10 |
| 159. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
71.68 |
0.9865 |
-0.0494 |
276 |
1 |
71.68 |
2010-09-13 |
| 160. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
71.67 |
0.9426 |
-0.0036 |
317 |
2 |
64.80 |
2011-10-27 |
| 161. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
71.64 |
0.9886 |
-0.0506 |
220 |
1 |
71.64 |
2010-09-07 |
| 162. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
71.62 |
0.9843 |
-0.0541 |
234 |
1 |
71.62 |
2010-10-02 |
| 163. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
71.61 |
0.9372 |
0.0019 |
320 |
1 |
71.61 |
2010-11-01 |
| 164. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
71.58 |
0.9500 |
-0.0131 |
362 |
1 |
71.58 |
2011-10-22 |
| 165. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
71.52 |
1.0099 |
-0.0789 |
207 |
1 |
71.52 |
2010-09-07 |
| 166. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
71.51 |
1.0799 |
-0.1498 |
243 |
1 |
71.51 |
2010-09-10 |
| 167. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
71.33 |
0.9925 |
-0.0244 |
247 |
1 |
71.33 |
2010-10-24 |
| 168. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
71.09 |
0.9943 |
-0.0629 |
373 |
1 |
71.09 |
2010-09-07 |
| 169. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
71.06 |
0.9942 |
-0.0576 |
483 |
1 |
71.06 |
2010-10-15 |
| 170. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
71.05 |
0.9429 |
-0.0139 |
287 |
1 |
71.05 |
2010-09-22 |
| 171. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
70.98 |
1.0719 |
-0.1175 |
360 |
1 |
70.98 |
2010-09-07 |
| 172. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
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0.8947 |
0.0368 |
366 |
1 |
70.97 |
2010-09-07 |
| 173. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
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0.9665 |
0.0084 |
326 |
1 |
70.89 |
2010-10-22 |
| 174. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
70.78 |
0.9430 |
-0.0160 |
297 |
2 |
70.73 |
2011-10-31 |
| 175. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
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1.0023 |
-0.0843 |
211 |
1 |
70.46 |
2010-09-07 |
| 176. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
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1.0740 |
-0.1190 |
264 |
1 |
70.22 |
2010-09-07 |
| 177. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
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0.9801 |
-0.0234 |
428 |
1 |
70.05 |
2011-11-03 |
| 178. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
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0.9699 |
-0.0579 |
269 |
1 |
69.91 |
2010-09-27 |
| 179. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
69.78 |
0.9567 |
-0.0036 |
184 |
3 |
64.94 |
2010-09-16 |
| 180. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
69.51 |
0.9965 |
-0.0889 |
310 |
1 |
69.51 |
2011-10-26 |
| 181. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
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0.8775 |
0.0331 |
443 |
1 |
69.49 |
2011-10-22 |
| 182. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
69.35 |
1.0763 |
-0.1296 |
367 |
1 |
69.35 |
2010-09-27 |
| 183. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
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0.9233 |
-0.0272 |
168 |
1 |
69.29 |
2011-10-26 |
| 184. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
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0.9672 |
-0.0580 |
396 |
1 |
69.16 |
2010-09-27 |
| 185. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
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0.9833 |
-0.0804 |
355 |
1 |
69.06 |
2010-09-07 |
| 186. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
68.95 |
0.9881 |
-0.0477 |
424 |
1 |
68.95 |
2010-10-15 |
| 187. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
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0.9786 |
-0.0843 |
193 |
1 |
68.92 |
2010-09-16 |
| 188. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
68.81 |
1.0349 |
-0.1376 |
234 |
2 |
65.78 |
2010-09-27 |
| 189. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
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0.9668 |
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383 |
1 |
68.79 |
2010-09-27 |
| 190. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.52 |
0.9601 |
-0.0612 |
308 |
2 |
66.12 |
2010-09-16 |
| 191. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
68.27 |
0.9964 |
-0.1054 |
203 |
1 |
68.27 |
2010-10-15 |
| 192. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
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1.0029 |
-0.1191 |
209 |
1 |
68.22 |
2010-10-15 |
| 193. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
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1.0337 |
-0.1445 |
214 |
1 |
68.19 |
2010-09-07 |
| 194. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
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0.9293 |
-0.0388 |
355 |
1 |
68.18 |
2010-09-27 |
| 195. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
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1.0331 |
-0.1457 |
234 |
1 |
68.17 |
2010-09-15 |
| 196. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
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0.9243 |
0.0044 |
448 |
1 |
68.16 |
2010-10-15 |
| 197. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
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0.9546 |
-0.0353 |
198 |
1 |
68.05 |
2010-10-24 |
| 198. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
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0.9109 |
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401 |
2 |
67.72 |
2011-10-22 |
| 199. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
67.82 |
0.9164 |
-0.0267 |
305 |
1 |
67.82 |
2010-10-02 |
| 200. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
67.58 |
1.0320 |
-0.1130 |
293 |
2 |
64.64 |
2010-10-05 |
| 201. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
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1.0358 |
-0.1125 |
349 |
1 |
67.58 |
2010-09-07 |
| 202. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
67.57 |
1.0232 |
-0.0957 |
350 |
1 |
67.57 |
2010-09-16 |
| 203. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
67.51 |
1.0521 |
-0.1761 |
171 |
1 |
67.51 |
2010-09-10 |
| 204. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
67.28 |
0.9583 |
-0.0368 |
341 |
1 |
67.28 |
2010-09-27 |
| 205. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
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0.9087 |
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393 |
1 |
67.24 |
2010-09-17 |
| 206. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
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0.9513 |
-0.0729 |
354 |
1 |
67.04 |
2010-09-30 |
| 207. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
66.76 |
0.9884 |
-0.1183 |
233 |
1 |
66.76 |
2010-09-15 |
| 208. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
66.61 |
0.9168 |
-0.0466 |
240 |
1 |
66.61 |
2011-11-02 |
| 209. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
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0.9213 |
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295 |
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66.40 |
2010-09-07 |
| 210. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
66.06 |
1.0177 |
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392 |
1 |
66.06 |
2010-09-27 |
| 211. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
65.87 |
0.8916 |
-0.0322 |
216 |
1 |
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2010-09-27 |
| 212. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
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0.9084 |
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404 |
1 |
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2010-09-27 |
| 213. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
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0.9309 |
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284 |
1 |
65.08 |
2010-09-11 |
| 214. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
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0.9820 |
-0.1371 |
274 |
1 |
64.78 |
2010-09-15 |
| 215. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
64.70 |
1.0031 |
-0.1260 |
304 |
1 |
64.70 |
2010-09-15 |
| 216. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
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0.9557 |
-0.1067 |
331 |
1 |
64.63 |
2010-09-27 |
| 217. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
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0.9831 |
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469 |
1 |
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2010-09-16 |
| 218. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
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0.9508 |
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384 |
1 |
64.26 |
2010-10-02 |
| 219. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
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0.9871 |
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2010-09-21 |
| 220. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
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0.9646 |
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264 |
1 |
64.02 |
2010-09-27 |
| 221. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
63.60 |
0.9852 |
-0.1558 |
264 |
1 |
63.60 |
2011-01-26 |
| 222. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
63.38 |
0.9485 |
-0.1200 |
291 |
2 |
62.91 |
2010-10-15 |
| 223. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
62.97 |
0.9567 |
-0.1362 |
273 |
1 |
62.97 |
2010-09-15 |
| 224. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
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1.0025 |
-0.1822 |
336 |
1 |
62.87 |
2010-09-16 |
| 225. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
62.71 |
0.9846 |
-0.1684 |
281 |
2 |
61.36 |
2010-09-30 |
| 226. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
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0.9074 |
-0.0871 |
396 |
1 |
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2011-11-05 |
| 227. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
62.44 |
0.8933 |
-0.0732 |
363 |
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62.44 |
2010-09-07 |
| 228. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
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0.8981 |
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393 |
1 |
62.33 |
2010-10-15 |
| 229. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
62.21 |
1.0034 |
-0.1942 |
302 |
1 |
62.21 |
2010-09-07 |
| 230. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
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1.0090 |
-0.1553 |
282 |
1 |
62.15 |
2010-09-17 |
| 231. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
61.99 |
0.9731 |
-0.1779 |
129 |
1 |
61.99 |
2010-09-22 |
| 232. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
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0.9097 |
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61.95 |
2010-09-27 |
| 233. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
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0.9792 |
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265 |
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61.63 |
2010-09-10 |
| 234. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
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1.0151 |
-0.2230 |
152 |
1 |
61.45 |
2010-09-07 |
| 235. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
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0.9088 |
-0.1038 |
348 |
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61.39 |
2010-09-13 |
| 236. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
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0.8852 |
-0.0838 |
201 |
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60.19 |
2010-09-15 |
| 237. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
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1.0662 |
-0.2380 |
407 |
1 |
60.69 |
2010-09-07 |
| 238. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
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1.0201 |
-0.2386 |
172 |
1 |
60.52 |
2010-09-12 |
| 239. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
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0.9710 |
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173 |
1 |
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2010-09-16 |
| 240. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
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0.9176 |
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365 |
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60.13 |
2010-09-27 |
| 241. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
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0.9916 |
-0.1688 |
282 |
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55.54 |
2010-09-16 |
| 242. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
59.83 |
0.9798 |
-0.2064 |
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59.83 |
2010-09-10 |
| 243. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
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0.9005 |
-0.1231 |
212 |
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59.81 |
2010-09-16 |
| 244. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
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0.9353 |
-0.1617 |
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59.72 |
2010-09-13 |
| 245. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
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1.0795 |
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226 |
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2010-09-07 |
| 246. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
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1.0361 |
-0.2644 |
269 |
1 |
59.19 |
2010-09-07 |
| 247. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
58.32 |
0.8382 |
-0.0785 |
268 |
2 |
55.46 |
2010-09-11 |
| 248. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
57.89 |
0.8670 |
-0.1081 |
318 |
2 |
57.54 |
2010-09-27 |
| 249. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
57.87 |
0.9128 |
-0.1181 |
369 |
1 |
57.87 |
2010-09-11 |
| 250. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
57.72 |
0.9866 |
-0.2391 |
218 |
1 |
57.72 |
2010-09-07 |
| 251. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
57.57 |
0.9120 |
-0.1296 |
436 |
1 |
57.57 |
2010-11-22 |
| 252. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
56.21 |
0.9049 |
-0.1683 |
351 |
1 |
56.21 |
2010-10-02 |
| 253. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.55 |
0.9635 |
-0.2356 |
389 |
1 |
55.55 |
2010-09-22 |
| 254. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
55.32 |
0.9572 |
-0.1947 |
376 |
1 |
55.32 |
2010-09-10 |
| 255. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
55.18 |
0.8602 |
-0.1448 |
206 |
1 |
55.18 |
2010-09-12 |
| 256. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
49.14 |
0.9023 |
-0.2219 |
231 |
1 |
49.14 |
2010-09-07 |