Adamic
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Adamic mentioned the conviction among Angelenos that their city “will ultimately — perhaps within the next three or four decades — be the biggest city in the world.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
Per has, in effect, been exiled from Eden, for the Adamic sin of stealing apples.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019
Apple engineer Steve Salika, 55, and his wife, Diana Adamic, 60, went on the trip with their daughter Tia Salika to celebrate the teen’s 17th birthday.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2019
Adamic later left the company, but Salika remained for 30 years, touching so many people with his “energy and enthusiasm,” O’Brien said in a statement.
From Washington Times • Sep. 5, 2019
But no words may express the imposing certainty of the patient that he is realizing the primordial, Adamic surprise of Life.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
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