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The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.
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Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

margaret sanger

— Chapter 30, "Now Is the Time for Converse", p. 374.

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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, put forth a riddle , and speak a parable unto the house of Israel ; And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon , and took the highest branch of the cedar : He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants .


— Bible, Under the parable of two eagles and a vine, in The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated Out of the ..., p.LxxV

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When I and stallion blend the grass gets cropped.


— John Carder Bush, in "Control: A translation" (1974)

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