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4 results for VERNIER from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Jun 8, 1979	16A	Scale named for a French mathematician	Jack Luzzatto	Maleska
Sun Mar 28, 1971	124A	Sextant scale	H. Hastings Reddall	Weng
Sat Dec 14, 1957	13A	Short scale sliding on a longer one.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Sep 17, 1944	15D	French inventor of slide scale (1580-1637).	Betty C. Crisman	Farrar

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