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"ref": "1979, S. P. Wells, Chilling requirements for optimal growth of Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir seedlings, page 2",
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"ref": "1996, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Blackeye Bean Prduction in California, page 4",
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"ref": "1836, Allan Cunningham, The Cabinet Gallery of Pictures by the First Masters of the English, page 189",
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"ref": "1849, Herman Melville, Redburn - His First Voyage",
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"ref": "2001, Charles Suhor, Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years Through 1970, page 112",
"text": "Raeburn also quotes Rudi Blesh's rhapsodic praise of “the first recordings of pure New Orleans jazz made in modern times . . . pure, uncommercialized jazz . . . as it sounded in its first flushes of classicism . . . the music of the men . . . who never lost faith in the pure melody that speaks to the heart.\"",
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"ref": "2011, T. Lindsay Buick, New Zealand's First War: Or, the Rebellion of Hone Heke, page 164",
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"ref": "2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, page 142",
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"ref": "2005, Allen P. Davis, Richard H. McCuen, Stormwater Management for Smart Growth, page 148",
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},
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"ref": "1996, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Blackeye Bean Prduction in California, page 4",
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},
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