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Part of the definition for "get" in the 1901 forerunner to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Taken deep in the cellars on the opening day in Helsinki university's new main library, Kaisa House or Kaisa-talo. The seven floors above ground have large windows that let in lots of light. There's four floors underground and access to Kaisaniemi Metro.
www.gaudeamus.fi/kirjakahvila/?p=7432
www.srv.fi/en/kaisa-talo
english dictionary
It is hard to stop thief
To cite a parallel: In the middle of the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson, the author of a famous English dictionary, called the noun slum low. Slums are still slums, but the word is no longer “low”: it is neutral. The word may have been borrowed ... english dictionary
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