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"ref": "1923, Harold Marcus Wiener, The Prophets of Israel in History and Criticism - Part 3, page 171",
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"ref": "1971, Lloyd C. Gardner, Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy, page 57",
"text": "But in the fall of 1933 deep shadows from Cuba overfell the Montevideo Foreign Ministers Conference, where Secretary Hull hoped to restart his trade program after having been stalled at London.",
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"ref": "1986, Adrienne Von Speyr, They Followed His Call: Vocation and Asceticism",
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"ref": "1919, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, page 300",
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"ref": "1998, Historical New Hampshire - Volumes 53-54, page 92",
"text": "And accordingly the said Indian went into his canoe at the mouth of the Great Bay , and when he was about a rod off the boat, the said John Keniston took up my gun and shot at him , and immediately after the canoe overfell and the Indian swimm'd towards the shore — and about a quarter of a mile further up the Bay, the other Indian which before had left the boat came off to them and inquired after his brother;",
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"ref": "2002, Jack London, In Hawaii with Jack London: On the Makaloa Mat and Other Stories, page 223",
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