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"ref": "1887, The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association (U.S.)",
"text": "On this point Dr. Woodward says: “For the lower grades a daily allowment of one hour for drawing, modelling, cutting, pasting, gluing, and sewing would be enough for positive manual training.\"",
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"ref": "1902, State of West Virginia, Public Documents - Volume 1",
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"ref": "1954, The Iowa Engineer - Volume 55, page 27",
"text": "While being in the advance program, the cadets receive an allowment from the government which amounts up to approximately sixty dollars a quarter. Out of this allowment the student must pay for his officers uniform which cost ninty dollars.",
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"ref": "1975, Annual Report to the Citizens' Advisory Board on Corrections, page 101",
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"ref": "1570, A Postil, Or Orderly Disposing of Certeine Epistles, page 334",
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"ref": "1886, Pioneer Collections, volume 7, page 42",
"text": "To encourage students by the allowment of pleasure and amusement,\" he says that he has already sent orders to New York for a spinning-machine of about one hundred spindles, an air pump, an electrical apparatus, etc.:",
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"ref": "1892, Louisiana. State. Commissioner of Agriculture, Biennial Report, page 128",
"text": "These conditions have prevented that careful preparation of soil so essential to the allowment of good stands and easy after cultivation.",
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"ref": "1995, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Ronald R. Yager, Advances in Intelligent Computing - IPMU '94",
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"text": "Its algebraic part is discussed as a body of arguments which contains an allocation of support and an allowment of possibility for each hypothesis.",
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