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},
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"text": "Is Mass’ Stone dead?",
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"ref": "1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:",
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"The title of someone holding a Master of Arts, especially a Presbyterian minister."
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"form": "Mass",
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{
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