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* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Inevitable, due to the time they were written.

* [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]: Probably the [[Ur Example]].

* [[Cold War]]: The backdrop for much of the "Tom Swift, Jr." series~~, almost always originating from the fictional Soviet nations [[Ruritania|Brungaria or Kranjovia]]~~.

* [[Cold War]]: The backdrop for much of the "Tom Swift, Jr." series.

* [[Defictionalization]]: [[Shock and Awe|Thomas Swift's Electric Rifle]] is the source of the term "TaSER".

* [[Dirty Communists]]: A frequent antagonist in the "Tom Swift, Jr." books.

* [[Dirty Communists]]: A frequent antagonist in the "Tom Swift, Jr." books, almost always originating from the fictional Soviet nations [[Ruritania|Brungaria or Kranjovia]].

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Tom's "invention" ability was initially fixing mundane technology for the first two books, then the third had him assisting an adult expert in creating a mundane airship, while the submarine of the fourth book is his father's invention. Only in the fifth book does Tom actually invent anything of his own.

* [[Either or Title]]: All of the books in the original series, such as ''Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle; or, Fun and Adventure on the Road''