Word: clatterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shorter than a shoe box and is made of galvanized sheet metal. The potential victim sees what appears to be a narrow tunnel open at both ends. Curiosity stirs. He enters. In the center of the box he hits a trip concealed in the floor of the tunnel. Whoosh, clatter, and a paddle sweeps the mouse into captivity. The Knesses have made a number of small changes in the original design. Yet the shape of the openings has always remained an elongated oval, something like a human eye. Is this the secret? "Truth is, we don't know," says...