Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary C. Lyon, Radcliffe '50, will assume leadership of the '48 Signature editorial board, effective February 1, according to the announcement by the 'Cliffe publication yesterday. She succeeds Ireno C. Tinker, Radcliffe '49 as editor-in-chief...
John Bunyan, whose great work is as famed as Richard Hooker's is obscure. The zealous tinker, who won his youthful struggle against the sins of swearing, Sunday afternoon games and dancing, spent twelve years in the filth and squalor of Bedford jail for refusing to stop his "unlicensed preaching." But it was probably during a second, briefer imprisonment, in 1675, that he "fell suddenly into an allegory" and produced his well-known work, Pilgrim's Progress...
Once, when someone asked whether his religion ever interfered with his banking, Sanders exploded: "Christianity isn't worth a tinker's toot if it won't work! The place to find out if Christianity works is at your desk. I apply it to life as I live...
...Miss Tinker, editor of the year old magazine, said that polls requesting the innermost desires of the potential Harvard-Radcliffe reading audience would be distributed in all registration lines for the next five days. Results of the poll will ascertain just how far skirts, necklines, and changes in magazines will...
...look" as taken over completely as Irene C. Tinker, Radcliffe '49, promised a "much more attractive magazine" which will explore riches as yet unplumbed in undergraduate publications. The graphic arts will be given a larger play in the revamped make-up and it is probable that a two page photographic spread will be utilized...