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Word: clicker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy could sympathize with these students because of the signatory tasks he has himself. He must sign almost every important record and document (but not degrees) that students need to officially be students. Every time he signs Kennedy records the fact on a little clicker on his desk. In a recent academic year, he saw the total rise to five thousand seven hundred and thirty-one. He quickly bought himself a signature stamp...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Man On The Form | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...rosary clicker is as yet a primitive machine which must be worked by hand; the possibilities of electrifying its action, amplifying the clicks, inserting Hydra-Matic shift between the decades and possibly embellishing it with a cigar lighter modeled into the image of a favorite saint, these open wide if appalling vistas to the religious gadgeteer . . . The wedding of piety and jewelry . . . with St. Christopher money clips, St. Anthony key chains, Miraculous Medal bracelets, etc., may have something to recommend it, but we fail to see what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Down with Gadgetry | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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