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...advantages of this system are obvious and manifold. It would allow the upperclassman to concentrate solely within his field. It would remove the annoying thought that after all these years the upperclassman must again putter around with testtubes and retorts, with scalpel and tweezers. It would aid materially in transforming the punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute...
...close-cropped hair is beginning to grey around the temples. A quick smile keeps extra wrinkles in his wrinkled, ruddy face. He has to wear glasses when he motors or reads, takes them off for lectures. When he is not writing diplomatic history he likes to paint, fish, photograph, putter around the house. No carpenter or plumber is ever needed by the Dennett household. Father of four, he got his two eldest sons to help him put up the family garage...
...prodigy. At the Southern A. A. U. meet last year he picked up the 56-lb. weight, asked the meet director how to throw the thing, stepped into the circle and slung it 32 ft., a meet record, his first try. Prophetically said Leo Sexton, U. S. Olympic shot putter: "Wait until he learns how to put that ball. As soon as he gets the knack of letting the shot go, he'll break every record in the book...
...learned to drive a locomotive under Railroader James J. Hill, mechanics was a burning hobby with King Albert. Up to the day of his death he drove his own car whenever possible. In the cellar of the Castle Laeken was a complete machine shop where he loved to putter. In that shop he worked with his own hands on a special bullet-proof body for an Excelsior chassis. Palace attaches delicately hinted that a bullet-proof car was not quite the thing for the pacific, democratic King of the Belgians. It was given to Belgian Banker Alfred Loewenstein...
...resting in the gutter and she loves it. The bed just won't appease her any more, Because she loves to sorta putter...