Type in two or three terms and up pops a chart that shows the relative number of Google searches each word received during a given time period.

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And if we extend the bet into the current decade, taking Simon at his word that he was happy to bet on any period from a year on up, then Ehrlich won every start-year bet in the 2000s.

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And for a period drama, that treatment is, in a word, surprising.

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Over the same period, overall Blu-ray hardware sales (no word on if this includes the PlayStation 3 or not) were down 27 percent and software sales down 5 percent.

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She starts her sentences up high, then swoops inexorably downward to the period, banging with a sledgehammer on the second syllable of every word that has one ("a-verrr-sion, " "Cammm-bohh-dee-ahh").

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Over the same period, the number of telephone operators plunged by 64 percent, word processors and typists by 63 percent, travel agents by 46 percent and bookkeepers by 26 percent, according to Labor Department statistics.

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