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 | | Gilbert, however, by utilizing the Metropolitan Branch line for easy access to the city, envisioned a healthful suburban community, an alternative to Washington's famously unpleasant and disagreeable living conditions. |
 | | Gilbert's Takoma Park overcame a national economic crisis, fires, and the founder's financial failures to become, by 1913, a thriving commercial center, and the largest city in Montgomery County, Maryland. |
 | | Gilbert walked at the rear of the procession counting the cadence to keep the movement as smooth as possible, to minimize the pain of the patient," Skinner's son wrote in 1939. |
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