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cook in dead earnest said Captain
"And a mighty fine detective would be lost to the world if our little friend here turned cook in dead earnest," said Captain Waller.
— from Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Emma Speed Sampson

class is divided each section consisting
[ 24 ] (5) Another change completes the cycle; the lecture is dropped and the class is divided, each section, consisting of twenty to thirty students, meeting with the same teacher regularly for class work.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

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