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Word: nyctograph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...fame he detested. An aloof, high-strung eccentric, he insisted for the rest of his life that there was no connection between Lewis Carroll and Charles Dodgson, whose erudite treatises on mathematics and logic* were forgotten almost as quickly as his rules for Circular Billiards and the Dodgson Nyctograph, an invention for taking notes in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Golden Afternoon | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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