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"ref": "1883 January 10, “The Social at the College of Pharmacy—Profs. Cook and Van Derbeck Lecture”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume CVIII, Philadelphia, Pa., page 2, column 4",
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"ref": "1914, Monthly Review of the Dairy and Food Division, pages 6–7",
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"ref": "1920, National Drug Clerk: The Journal of the National Association of Drug Clerks, page 332, column 2",
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"ref": "1994 April 16, “Today’s showplace is tomorrow’s arid wasteland”, in The Item, volume 99, number 181, Sumter, S.C., page 3A",
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"ref": "1869 December 16, Reading Times, volume XXIV, number 62, Reading, Pa., column 4",
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"ref": "1999 September 1, Mary Canrobert, “I’m bugged by nightmarish guilt over my young Dr. Doom”, in The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N.C., page 1V",
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