Erector Set
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His creations included his own version of the hula hoop and a variation on the Erector Set.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021
This Duke has the enthusiastic but distractible air of a nobleman who has been conditioned to see the world as his personal Erector Set.
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2017
Rather than being enmeshed in a creaky Erector Set, drivers on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will travel between two tapered concrete pylons that rise from the Brooklyn shore and open like arms to embrace the sky.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2017
The finished product resembles an Erector Set construction covering the leg.
From Scientific American • Dec. 27, 2012
I also had an Erector Set which had a little motor that ran off the old batteries.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar
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