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  • n  analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators

  • Ambitious workersfrom hard-hat musclemen to round-shouldered slipstick artists were already clamoring to work under the Brooklyn-born straw boss.
  • It is the scientist with his slipstick who measures the effects of untried weapons in future battles.
  • At Cal and Cal Tech, Oppie had been at home with the blackboard and the slipstick.

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