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DENVER - It is the idea of Tinkertoys or Legos on a grander scale, making it a hands-on urban development experience for children.
KUSA-TV - 2010
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It's one thing to try to impose one's technology on an unsuspecting market, but Microsoft employees know that the iPhone makes their Windows Mobile devices look like Tinkertoys, which is why it's so easy to find iPhones ...
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We also built an impressive fort out of Tinkertoys, ate chocolate popsicles at the kitchen table, and played some silly games with abandon.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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We also built an impressive fort out of Tinkertoys, ate chocolate popsicles at the kitchen table, and played some silly games with abandon.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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The Hassenfeld family has long provided for children with Tinkertoys and Tonka trucks through their family-founded business, Hasbro Inc.
Family Behind Hasbro to Fund NYU Pediatric Center Melanie Grayce West 2011
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Over the next five months, the mirrors were taken out of storage, the primary mirror nestled into its cell and the secondary hung over it on braces that looked like Tinkertoys.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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My God, Julio could build that with his Tinkertoys.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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My God, Julio could build that with his Tinkertoys.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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From the window of a helicopter 1,500 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, oil platforms look like Tinkertoys in a swimming pool.
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So they crawled up inside the Tinkertoys to the mirror, and sure enough, it was a crack.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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