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

...radio, fluorescent lights, a Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: By the Sweat of Thy Brow | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Last week up for sale went one Silex top ("I'll sell it for 50?; it's like brand-new"); one electric fly catcher for $12, a black & white cocker spaniel ("I'll trade it for a piano"); a $10,000 Monterey home for $7,500. Up, too, went Folger coffee sales, with a 16% increase over the entire area covered by the programs since their inception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bargains By Air | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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