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  • 51to little avail —    If something is to little avail, it means that, despite great efforts, something ended in failure, but taking comfort from the knowledge that nothing else could have been done to avert or avoid the result.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …

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  • 52To little avail —   If something is to little avail, it means that, despite great efforts, something ended in failure, but taking comfort from the knowledge that nothing else could have been done to avert or avoid the result …

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  • 53tide over — 1. Float over, get over by waiting, surmount or pass by caution and patience, escape or evade by the favor of circumstances, avoid by delay. 2. Escape the shoals, avoid by a little, get over without scraping or sinking, keep one s head above… …

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  • 54Michigan Terminal System — (MTS) The MTS welcome screen as seen through a 3270 terminal emulator. Company / developer University of Michigan and 7 other universities in the US, Canada, and the UK …

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  • 55Maidenhead United F.C. — Maidenhead United Full name Maidenhead United Football Club Nickname(s) The Magpies Founded 1870 …

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  • 56NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement — National Hockey League labour relations 1992 strike 1994–95 lockout 2004–05 lockout 2005 CBA Ice hockey portal …

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  • 57Marine Otter — Taxobox name = Marine Otter status = EN status system = iucn3.1 trend = unknown regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Carnivora familia = Mustelidae subfamilia = Lutrinae genus = Lontra genus authority = Gray, 1843 species …

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  • 58Marine otter — Not to be confused with sea otter. Marine otter Conservation status …

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  • 59Quotations from Chairman Mao — Little Red Book redirects here. For other uses, see Little Red Book (disambiguation). Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung The Little Red Book   …

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  • 60kind of / sort of —    Avoid these expressions in the sense of somewhat , rather or a little (especially avoid reducing them to kinda and sorta): The pace of the baseball game was rather [not kind of] slow …

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