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Bibliographic information
| Title | Answers to Questions |
| Author | Frederic Jennings Haskin |
| Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 13 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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