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"text": "[J]ust that little extra second did the trick.",
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"ref": "1921, Victor Appleton, chapter 24, in Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters",
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"ref": "2002 April 15, Laura Bradford, “Three Ways To Give Nature A Helping Hand”, in Time",
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