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  • The gadget has a long technical name-The Dillon-Wagoner gravitron polarity generator, a name which I loathe for obvious reasons-but the technies who tend it have already nicknamed it the spindizzy, because of what it does to the magnetic moment of any atom-any atom-within its field.

    Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

  • Earth, wriggle into skimpy shorts and strained bras, then set about recapturing a gizmo called a mega-gravitron, that has tugged the moon out of the sky and put it on a collision course with Earth.

    The Guardian World News Peter Conrad 2011

  • There was the goldfish toss where I'd bring home some poor dying; the gravitron that would spin wildly as a Carny played Guns N Roses; the water gun games that I mastered to bring home mirrored album covers.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • I don't know how they fit cars down there streets let alone a gravitron ride and bumper car center.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • She’s now Joanie Laurer and begins building a mega-gravitron to crash the moon into the earth and snuff out all life as we know it.

    Illegal Aliens (2007) 2010

  • Have no idea why people like to be first, but thought I'd do it to prevent some other moron from pissing me off saying that: 0) gravitron on April 2, 2009 at 02: 41: 54

    "SuperHeroHype.com - 30 most recent stories" 2009

  • (For a good time, I suggest you smoke crack and listen to their Happymatic on a whirling gravitron.

    Indyish 2008

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