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"ref": "1941 June, “Some Early Welsh-Built Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 246",
"text": "This applies not only to trackwork and operational methods, but also to motive power, and it will be recalled that the first steam locomotive to run on rails (howbeit, tramplates) was Trevithick's Penydarren engine of 1804.",
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"word": "quoi qu’il en soit"
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"sense": "be that as it may",
"word": "gleichwohl"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tém ne méneje",
"sense": "be that as it may",
"word": "те́м не ме́нее"
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"sense": "be that as it may",
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