Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...renamed her for the reptile which he considers so lucky that he uses a large stuffed one with a hole in its back on his library desk for an ashtray. In 1931, after he built El Lagartito for the Gold Cup race, Driver Reis began to tinker with El Lagarto and the Packard motor with which he had replaced her original power plant in 1925. He had her bottom "shingled," to make her ride high in the water instead of cutting through it. When she outdistanced El Lagartito in trial spins, Mr. Reis decided to enter...
...Onetime second-baseman for the Chicago Cubs (1902-13), member of the double-play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance...
...taken with the slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...
...Whitney's radiotherm attracted the attention of General Motors' Mr. Kettering. Mr. Kettering, an inveterate tinker, took that first radiotherm to the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, where Dr. Simpson could experiment with it. It cured cases of syphilis (thus making Professor von Jauregg's troublesome malaria treatment obsolete), gonorrhea, rheumatism, colds and other ailments. But when the feverish patient broke into a sweat, the high frequency current tended to arc, thus burning his wet flesh. Mr. Kettering overcame that difficulty by fanning the patient dry with a blast of hot air from a new air conditioner...
Brooklyn-born, son of the founder of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Joseph Knapp was an early partner of the late Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (see p. 59) in publishing the defunct New York Recorder. One of the first to tinker with multiple color printing, he founded American Lithographic Co. Thirty years ago he first tried the Sunday supplement idea with a company called Associated Sunday Magazines, but it failed miserably for various reasons when the War kited the cost of newsprint...