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continues to play a vital role in modern theory and current applications. Wasow's Ph.D. dissertation (N.Y.U., 1941) ... represents the starting point of this important flourish of modern applicable research. ... MRC is printing his 1941 thesis in its entirety ... Readers will note that the name "
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