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to completely remove, eliminate, or destroy
- Holabird had, five years before, done one bit of research which had taken his name into scientific journals throughout the world: he had studied the effect of the extirpation of the anterior lobes of a dog's brain on its ability to find its way through the laboratory.Chapter 27 (34% in)
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