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Word: mannikins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rigged up a blocky mannikin with swiveled arms and wired innards. Then he, others also, at the Level Club blew whistles of those assorted tones to which the dunderhead had been attuned. It pulled a rope that raised a flag that covered the painted face of George Washington; it raised a telephone receiver; it set a vacuum cleaner and electric fan going and the Masonic audience applauding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dunderhead | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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