1.   I left a message at the yard.

2.   Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life.

3.   There is a serious message at the core of all this frivolity.

4.   Perhaps the best way to go about it was to take his message at face value.

5.   I got the message at lunch time, so maybe to-morrow would do now.

6.   Is it?

7.   And the president will undoubtedly offer the same message at a fund-raiser for the New Mexico Democratic Party in Santa Fe on Monday afternoon.

8.   And so the message at the conference, sponsored by Hillel, the leading Jewish campus organization, is be prepared, be positive, be proactive.

9.   At least that was the main message at the Nordstrom opera gown show given in conjunction with the San Francisco Opera Guild last week.

10.   A reporter who called late in the trading day got a recorded message at first.