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"ref": "1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England",
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"ref": "1915, Zane Grey, chapter 11, in The Lone Star Ranger",
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"ref": "1917, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 4, in Marching Men",
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"ref": "1949 April 10, Owen Lattimore, \"Big Problem is to Make UN Work, Too,\" Sunday Herald (Connecticut USA), p. 12 (retrieved 10 Oct 2013)",
"text": "With the big names of Europe assembled in Washington for the signing of the Atlantic Pact, the pact itself and its implications continue to be the world's biggest story."
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"ref": "2004 Mach 26, Richard Corliss, \"That Old Feeling at 100,\" Time (retrieved 10 Oct 2013)",
"text": "[J]ust before Christmas 1983 . . . our editors were alerted that the surrealist painter Joan Miro had died. (A big name almost always dies around Christmas.)"
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"ref": "2004 Mach 26, Richard Corliss, \"That Old Feeling at 100,\" Time (retrieved 10 Oct 2013)",
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