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This particular school places great emphasis on the historicity of ideas, practices, or institutions.

The only standard brassiere cup size smaller than the A cup is the AA cup.

Another problem was bureaucratic: the transfer of the ship required, literally, an act of Congress. It was an agonizing process that ground along for twenty-six months, through the tenures of three secretaries of the navy, two presidents, and two mayors of New York.