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"ref": "1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 52",
"text": "The repairs were completed in the summer of last year, more than ten months after the line had been closed, and the branch was re-opened on June 29, when Mr. T. F. Cameron, Chief Regional Officer, Scottish Region, received Provost J. S. Collin, of Eyemouth, at the station. The 12.42. p.m. train to Burnmouth was signalled out of the station by the Provost, after he had been introduced to the crew.",
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"ref": "1982 August 21, Keith Beasley, “U/Mass Professors To Keep Positions Despite Controversy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 6, page 3",
"text": "The provost of the University of Massachusetts has reversed a decision by faculty personnel committees not to renew the contracts of two professors engaged in sex research.",
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"ref": "2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian",
"text": "The princess, already a serious and diligent child, was given lessons on constitutional matters by Sir Henry Marten, the provost of Eton, and became aware even then that she should not show emotion and must maintain a certain reserve.",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "highest position in a monastery below an abbot",
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