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  • Associated Press Chinese artist Peng Xiaoping held a dough figurine of Mrs. Clinton with a popular Chinese snack of candied fruit and a paper windwheel, on Feb. 21.

    In Asia, Clinton Emphasizes Diplomacy, Economy 2009

  • As was the custom in that locality, the water supply depended on a rickety windwheel.

    Uneasy Money 1928

  • Ever and again there will appear a cluster of cottages -- cottages into which we shall presently look more closely -- about some works or workings, works, it may be, with the smoky chimney of to-day replaced by a gaily painted windwheel or waterwheel to gather and store the force for the machinery; and ever and again will come a little town, with its cherished ancient church or cathedral, its school buildings and museums, its railway-station, perhaps its fire-station, its inns and restaurants, and with all the wires of the countryside converging to its offices.

    Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

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