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  • n  the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-six and one
  • s  being seven more than twenty

  • Later, at Princeton, he produced a twenty-seven page thesis which laid the foundations for the Theory of Games.
  • That's a twenty-seven point jump from last July's reading - taken a good two to three months before the financial crisis exploded.
  • But the twenty-seven-year-old human managed to swap queens early, on the seventh and eighth moves, just as he had in Game 1.
News & Articles

  • Fukushima 2.25 -- The Humanitarian Crisis
    Twenty-seven months after the reactors withstood one of the largest earthquakes in history, only to fall to the largest tsunami in history, over 50,000 people are still being held captive by fear, and their lives are slowly being destroyed by the bogeyman of radiation for no reason.
    June 18, 2013 - Forbes
  • Critical Keys for Miami Heat to Save Their Season in Game 6
    Twenty-seven-game win streak. Top-seeded team in the NBA . Expectations of an easy romp to a second straight championship. All that is forgotten now. It's about Game 6 for the Miami Heat , down 3-2 to the San Antonio Spurs . It's about keeping the season alive.  It's about doing what their core could not do in 2011, after returning to Miami with a 3-2 deficit against the Dallas Mavericks ...
    June 17, 2013 - Bleacher Report
  • Daughter Tracks Down Dad's Accused Shooter
    Joselyn Martinez was just nine years old when her father was gunned down outside their family's restaurant. Twenty-seven years later, she was able to use some Internet sleuthing to track down the man accused of...
    June 17, 2013 - NBC Miami
Quotes

  • Julian Sher in USA Today
    It serves to remind people what a murderous biker war was happening,said Julian Sher, author of two books on Canadian biker gangs. "Twenty-seven gang-related killings out of 160 total biker-related murders during that period. That's...
  • Jim Furyk in ESPN
    It's like walking in sand and out there. Twenty-seven today kind of felt like 36,said Furyk, the winner in 2006 at Hamilton and 2007 at Angus Glen. "I'm hanging in there. No bogeys, but only three birdies. I need to stay focused and be...
  • John Baird in Canada.com
    Twenty-seven hundred people got it right. They didn't. That is not a partnership and they're bitching at us,Baird said.

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