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person having any communicable or infectious disease
Any person having any communicable or infectious disease, or one caring for persons having such disease, must not be allowed to handle the milk or milk utensils.
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

piece having a curved outline is drawn
The same is the case where a piece having a curved outline is drawn, which is shown in Figure 107, where the set of the bow-pen [87] is gradually increased for drawing the shade lines of the curves.
— from Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing; together with examples in simple geometry and elementary mechanism, including screw threads, gear wheels, mechanical motions, engines and boilers by Joshua Rose


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