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"ref": "2011, Meghan McCarthy McPhaul, A History of Cannon Mountain: Trails, Tales and Ski Legends, page 2",
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"text": "Any piece of equipment that raises people presents bodily hazards related to falling in the event of upset or collapse. However, this section's “Case Occurrence” is a good example of a powerline-contact hazard specific to an aerial lift, and shows the lift boom as a dormant hazard.",
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"ref": "1996, Coda Magazine - Issues 265-270, page 24",
"text": "With Curtis Clark he gives the aerial lift buoyant jazz phrasing is about.",
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"ref": "1997, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings",
"text": "Then came one which I have always classed among the most exquisite of her productions, with a singular felicity of phrase and an aerial lift that bears the ear upward with the bee it traces:— The nearest dream recedes unrealized.",
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"ref": "2016, Klaus Benesch, François Specq, Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity",
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},
{
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"text": "Any piece of equipment that raises people presents bodily hazards related to falling in the event of upset or collapse. However, this section's “Case Occurrence” is a good example of a powerline-contact hazard specific to an aerial lift, and shows the lift boom as a dormant hazard.",
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},
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"ref": "2016, Klaus Benesch, François Specq, Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity",
"text": "Milton's blank verse is musical in polyphonic Renaissance style; Wordsworth deliberately takes the aerial lift out of the medium, and instead settles its rhythm upon walking.",
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