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Copyright, 1919, by Achmed Abdullah, Edwina Stanton Babcock, Charles CaldwellDobie, George Humphrey, Arthur Johnson, Sinclair Lewis, Harrison Rhodes,Fleta Campbell Springer, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Edward C. Venable, Mary HeatonO’Brien, Frances Gilchrist Wood, William Dudley Pelley, Gordon Hall Gerould, KatharineHolland Brown, Burton Kline, Mary Mitchell Freedley, Katharine PrescottMoseley, and Julian Street.
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