1940 Crossword Clue

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	noun • (Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau
	23%	12		First discovered in 1940
	noun • any of various red antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria
	23%	8		First synthesized in 1940
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New York Times13 Aug 1999	Across 39
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