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"ref": "1995 October 25, Robert Frost, Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (LOA #81) (DE-601)374069697: Library of America series), Library of America, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 357",
"text": "Lucretius versus the Lake Poets ' Nature I loved ; and next to Nature , Art . '\nDean , adult education may seem silly .\nWhat of it though ? I got some willy - nilly\nThe other evening at your college deanery .\nAnd grateful for it ( Let's not be facetious!)[…]",
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"sense": "senior official in college or university",
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"sense": "senior official in college or university",
"word": "ព្រឹទ្ធបុរស"
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"sense": "senior official in college or university",
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"text": "dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador"
},
{
"text": "dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature"
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{
"ref": "1955 October 19, Rex Stout, The Next Witness, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, page 67",
"text": "All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected[…]",
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"A hill."
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