Word: count
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...went to The Big Apple Circus, a one-ring show with the big-top pitched at Marine Industrial Park, twenty minutes by foot from the State T-stop. The Big Apple is a two-elephant circus. That is how a circus used to be advertised, by the elephant-count. In the late nineteenth century, circus owners competed for the elephant crown. In 1881, Barnum had four elephants, Forepaugh had five, and the Sells Brothers called their gig the "Great European Seven Elephant Railroad Show." No match for Pompey, who is 61 B.C. advertised a celebration at the Circus Maximus...
Seventeen minutes later, I "awoke" from my somewhat somnolent stage to her steady counting, "You will awake when I count to three, relaxed and more refreshed than before...
...correct on at least one count--insisting that the compulsively secretive University administration release the results of its probe and provide documentation clearing Gomes' name. We cannot simply accept their word that Gomes did nothing improper in running the church...
...Crimson marched over opponent after opponent, each team was left to wonder why it could only count its points on one hand. No team managed more than three points against Harvard's stingy defense all weekend...
...considered an individual organism. The same is true with fungi, which, incidentally, are now looked upon as a kingdom separate from plants and animals. Complicating matters is the fact that pieces of the A. bulbosa may have broken off over the millenniums. If so, do the pieces count as one organism or many? There's no agreed upon answer, says Clive Brasier, a British botanist. Insisting on a yes or no, he says, "gets to be a Guinness Book of Records kind of question...