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"ref": "1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court",
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"ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 96",
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"ref": "1993, Aryeh Kaplan, Yaakov Elman, Israel ben Gedaliah Lipschutz, Immortality, resurrection, and the age of the universe: a kabbalistic view, page 31",
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"ref": "2001, Karl Figlio, Psychoanalysis, science and masculinity, page 213",
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"sense": "totally opposite",
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