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"ref": "1940 March 21, Fred Cummings, committee member, “Statement of Albert S. Goss [Former Land Bank Commissioner, Farm Credit Administration, Washington, D.C.]—Resumed”, in Farm Credit Legislation: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session on H.R. 8748 […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 194",
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"sense": "to achieve the expected standard; to be effective or good enough — see also suffice",
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"sense": "to achieve the expected standard; to be effective or good enough — see also suffice",
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"sense": "to achieve the expected standard; to be effective or good enough — see also suffice",
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