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Word: cranks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lose something when performed online. (No, I'm not going to talk about sex.) Consider hiking. True, you could don your head-mounted display and get on your treadmill while a friend did the same in another city. If you wanted a whiff of pine or cedar, you could crank up the computer-controlled aroma synthesizer that the company DigiScents has said it will market. Not too tempting, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Ever Log Off? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...became a multimillionaire from selling a snake oil called Argyrol. He bought a huge collection--175 Renoirs, 66 Cezannes, 65 Matisses--and built a foundation around them, but Philadelphia still remembers him mainly as a geek and a bully, and his theories about art as the honkings of a crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Livable Treasure-House | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

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