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FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
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$200
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Olmsted & Calvert Vaux designed this 840-acre green space, which now has a zoo, a reservoir & the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Central Park
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$400
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Olmsted's plans for a reservoir for Mt. Royal Park were dashed by an 1870s depression in this city whose name sounds like the park
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Montreal
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$600
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Olmsted teamed with a Boston firm to come up with the final plans seen here for this university in Northern California & here it is today
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Stanford
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$800
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Olmsted designed the 987-acre Belle Isle, where you can zip down the giant slide for just $1 in this city across from Windsor, Canada
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Detroit
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$1000
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Brooklyn went with the flow to design this park; you can go curling, play hockey or just ice skate like the folks here
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Prospect Park
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MUSICAL GENRES
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$200
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Pantera's "Vulgar Display pf Power" & Motörhead's "No Remorse" made Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums of this genre
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(heavy) metal
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$400
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In 2020 "Contigo" by Alejandro Sanz won Record of the Year at these Grammys
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the Latin Grammys
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$600
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The perfect song in this genre is said to include "Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison"
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country music
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$800
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In the 1972 movie "The Harder They Come", Jimmy Cliff helped popularize this genre that fights for the oppressed
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reggae
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$1000
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Marvin Young used part of his name for this stage name & became the first solo rapper to win a Grammy; now "Bust A Move"
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Young MC
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CLUES FROM THE FIRST CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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A boy (3 letters)
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a lad
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$400
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Found on the seashore (4 letters)
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sand
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$600
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To govern (4 letters)
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rule
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$800
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To elude (5 letters)also starts & ends with "E"
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evade
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$1000
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A daydream (7 letters) we'll spot you the first letter, "R"
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a reverie
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WELCOME TO THE PARTY
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$200
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She voted for Carter in 1976 as a registered Democrat, but soon switched & later served as Secretary of State under George W. Bush
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Condoleezza Rice
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$400
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In 1962 this future president said, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me"
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Ronald Reagan
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$600
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This Mass. senator switched from Rep. to Dem. after she studied credit card companies that fleeced poor families
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Elizabeth Warren
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$800
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Spurned by the Whigs & Dems, this sitting president welcomed himself in 1844 to a new party, which he created!
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John Tyler
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$1000
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This splinter wing of the Democratic Party welcomed Strom Thurmond with a presidential nomination in 1948
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a Dixiecrat
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FASHIONABLY
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$200
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Japanese gives us the name for this wide-sleeved garment tied with a sash called an obi
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a kimono
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$400
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Basque & pancake are 2 styles of this flat French-named hat
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a beret
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$600
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Wrap yourself up snug as a bug in its chrysalis state in this type of coat named for an insect structure
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a cocoon
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$800
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I say, old chap! Wide neckties include the cravat & this one suitable for wear at the British racecourse of the same name
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an ascot
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$1000
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This typically red & black checked pattern now popular at Christmas is said to be named for a herd of animals
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buffalo plaid
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LATE
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$200
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This "floral" term refers to someone whose talents flourish after a long span of time
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a late bloomer
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$400
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If you come up wanting, you're said to be "a day late" & this monetary phrase
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a dollar short
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$600
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"Carpool Karaoke" is a segment on this CBS show
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
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$800
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In Italy the late Gothic period of art was centered in Siena & this big city just to the north
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Florence
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$1000
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Caused by a water mold, "late" this caused the Irish potato famine
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blight
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LAKES OF EUROPE
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$400
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In German this largest lake in the Alps is called Genfersee
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Lake Geneva
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$800
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This second-largest city of Russia gets a lot of its fresh water from nearby Lake Ladoga
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St. Petersburg
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$1200
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Only a narrow barrier separates Romania's Lake Razelm from this sea
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the Black Sea
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$1600
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If you're sailing around the Frisian Lakes like Sneekermeer, you're having fun in this country
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the Netherlands
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$2000
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The shores of Hungary's Lake Balaton have been used for this type of agriculture for 2,000 years
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wine
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ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS
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$400
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Like certain marsupials, these desert-dwelling rodents hop on 2 legs
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kangaroo rats
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$800
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This fearsome predator gets the first part of its name from the stripes on its sides
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a tiger shark
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$1200
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This largest pinniped gets its name from its size & its trunk-like snout
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an elephant seal
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$1600
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Large ears like those on a donkey hybrid give this its name
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a mule deer
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$2000
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There's a big cat in the name of these colorful Pacific reef dwellers with venomous spines
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lionfish
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A LITERATURE SAMPLER
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$400
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In 2020 he had a No. 1 kids' picture book bestseller with "I Promise"... oh yeah, he also won an NBA title with the Lakers
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LeBron James
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$800
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In a classic tale about this title guy, "John, Lord Greystoke... vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men"
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Tarzan
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$1200
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TB, or not TB, there is no question tuberculosis killed this "Eve of St. Agnes" romantic poet at age 25
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(John) Keats
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$1600
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In a legendary tale, the "Galloping Hessian of the Hollow" is better known as this, which is certainly more terrifying
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the Headless Horseman
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$2000
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This book about surviving the great recession of 2008 is the basis for a 2020 film starring Frances McDormand
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Nomadland
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SUMMER MOVIES
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$400
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In 2017 there were plenty of robotic performances in "The Last Knight", a continuation of this action film series
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Transformers
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$800
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Steve Carell voiced the main character & also his twin brother Dru, who was up to no good in this "3"
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Despicable me
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$1200
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It was more park & less rec for this actor who was back as Owen in "Jurassic World: "Fallen Kingdom"
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Chris Pratt
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$1600
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Computer & TV screen images are made of these, the title of a 2015 movie about video game characters attacking Earth
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pixels
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$2000
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(Hi, I'm Kevin Hart.) Voicing Snowball, I had an announcement to make in this 2016 animated film: "Death is coming to Brooklyn and it's got buck teeth and a cotton tail"
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The Secret Life of Pets
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KEEP THE FAITH
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$400
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Nearly 80% of the people of India follow this religion that dates back to around 1500 B.C.
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Hinduism
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$800
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This church was founded in the United States in 1830 & has more than 16 million followers today
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the Mormon Church (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
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$1200
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In 2021 this Jewish holiday begins at sunset on November 28 & ends at nightfall on December 6
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Hanukkah (Chanukkah)
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$1600
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Southeast Asia has many temples of Cao Dai, which blends Buddhism, Taoism & this other ancient East Asian system
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Confucianism
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$2000
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Founded in Iran in the mid-19th century, this faith has no priesthood & believes in the unity of humanity
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the Baha\'i faith
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L-M-N
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$400
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Yes, my dear Watson, this adjective refers to carbon, or even potassium
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elemental (elementary)
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$800
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Hammurabi's code specified this as a payment of one piece of silver to a former wife by her former husband
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alimony
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$1200
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It's the type of horse seen frolicking here
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a palomino
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$1600
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It's the highest or utmost point of something
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a culmination
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$2000
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It contains more than half of the total protein in an egg & almost none of the fate
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the albumen
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FOOD & DRINK PHRASES
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N/A
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A 1951 TIME article said, "Since the war," this 2-word term for a period of time "has been written into union contracts"
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coffee break
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