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She often worked in the front seat of theii Chevrolet, parked away from the dis tractions of home.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition to Patagonia products, the store will stock DaKine tractions pads and leashes, Ocean Minded sandals, Nixon watches, Smith sunglasses, and a large selection of surfboard fins.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions.

From Time Magazine Archive

The air is exhausted with each respiration of the patient and from 50 to 200 tractions are made at each sitting.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.

We conclude that the surface tractions on the portion of the body which is bounded by any very small closed surface, are ultimately in equilibrium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various