Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts, the favorites were Zalmon Simmons' My Sin, winner last year with an average speed of 66 m.p.h., and Herbert Mendelson's brand-new Notre Dame, successor to the original Notre Dame that won the 1937 race. Sentimentalists hoped that Gar Wood Jr., driving his little Tinker Toy (a converted 18-ft. runabout with which he was making his debut in big-time inboard racing), might follow in the wake of his famed father, four-time Gold Cup winner...
Throughout the report Almazan's claims and viewpoints are quoted frequently, those of the opposition never. . . . For all of which I don't give a tinker's damn except for the timing of the article. Our Good-Neighbor policy is urgently necessary to us today...
...Yorker by birth, dry, soft-spoken Professor Gabriel, 50, has done all his teaching at Yale, with time out as an infantry lieutenant during World War I. In the past eight years his course in "American Thought and Civilization" has significantly outstripped in popularity elegant Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker's "Age of Johnson" and now, with 350 students, has the largest crowd in the university. Textbookish in getup and without resort to charm, his book is strictly and impressively U. S. stuff, the richest work of its kind since Parrington's Main Currents of American Thought...