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John Steinbeck: Cannery Row (EBook, 2008, Penguin Books)

Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one …

He picked up a piece of excelsior and put it in a garbage can and then he looked at Doc where he worked labeling specimen bottles containing purple Velella.

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new vocabulary: excelsior

softwood shavings used for packing fragile goods or stuffing furniture