The eight tokens are an iron, racecar, Scottie dog, a shoe, thimble, top hat, wheelbarrow and battleship.

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The Piazza della Signoria was a riot of sun-pinked Russians, American students, and cops in white thimble-shaped helmets.

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Buy the usual button for a bachelor, thimble for an old maid, etc.

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Others resemble a black, beaded thimble that fits snugly over an antenna.

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Tell that to the timeworn tokens of Monopoly: the shoe, top hat, wheelbarrow, clothes iron, battleship, race car, thimble and Scottie dog.

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While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1990s they experimented with thimble-size reactors etched into silicon wafers to produce toxic chemicals.

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Bailing out water with a thimble is very tiring.

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Symyx has developed a machine as big as a walk-in closet that can mix thimble-size quantities of chemicals and metals in parallel, in up to 1, 000 combinations per day, to test and create new materials.

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In water 20 to 25 feet deep just off the Thimble Islands, Mr. Smith has set up two, 150-foot lines of rope that are submerged about three feet below the water's surface and held into place by chains and 400-pound anchors.

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