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Those thumbtacks represented the foci of your oval.
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Using thumbtacks or small nails as mounting posts was also common.
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Although you could put thumbtacks on the couch to avoid sitting on it, there are healthier options.
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If the tape is to be used later as a fixed reference for later trunk volume measurements the top is fastened in place using several thumbtacks.
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Their match include the use of a miniature beer keg as well as thumbtacks, barbed wire and a flaming table.
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These pins are also called thumbtacks.
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The fraternity piano had thumbtacks on every hammer and produced a unique sound.
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At 25 metres, they could knock off thumbtacks.
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Electrified cage walls, cacti, tables, light tubes, glass, thumbtacks, baseball bats, and barbed-wire have been used in it.
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The following 1979 year's offering draws from just as big a notice board, but the musical thumbtacks are rarely strong enough to hold the ideas in place.
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