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"ref": "1975, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act Amendments of 1975, page 199:",
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"ref": "2019, Miriam Focaccia, Pietro Blaserna and the Birth of the Institute of Physics in Rome, page 114:",
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"ref": "2022, Inez Haynes Gillmore, The Story of the Woman's Party:",
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"word": "pyytää mahdottomia"
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"word": "demander l’impossible"
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