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Word: latchetted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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Usage:

British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain pulled a string, the string released a weight, the weight hit a plank, the plank moved a rod, the rod tipped a latchet, the latchet released a spring, the spring opened a door and a ball began to roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Security Talk | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

...Latchet. The rod hit the latchet, which was in the shape of a smart German rejoinder that the demilitarized Rhine zone would be kept demilitarized, but that any question of the Polish boundary was out of place in a proposed treaty dealing with the Rhine frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Security Talk | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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