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Word: schlosser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Distwacting. In Detroit, Patrolman Louis Schlosser was ordered to stick to one type of whistling after the city council got a written protest from distracted office workers who complained: "One minute the whistle will go tweet-twoot-twoot-tweet. Just as you get used to that it will go twoot-tweet-tweet-twoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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