Word: tinkering
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When Carole sights the daughter's husky and handsome fiance (Philip Ober) she loses all interest in her next appearance date. Informed that he likes to tinker with motors and invent things, she breathes, "Ah, just like Einstein." And: "Science is golden...
...pensions. That government itself needs some regulating the editors indicated by voting 8-to-1 for trimming Federal payrolls, 4-to-1 for putting New Deal agencies under Civil Service rules. Only one editor in four thought Federal administrators could be trusted with sole power to tinker the dollar...
...lose the markets they have lately gained. And when the international debate about the future of sterling grew raucous, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain either lied in his teeth or confirmed the world's worst fears when he said, in effect, that old England gave not a tinker's dam what the value of sterling might be in dollars. Hope of stabilizing the world's currencies in the near future was stifled...
...Monstrous!" cried Laborite John Joseph Tinker. "I have seen this thing in the British Museum and I call it useless. If scholars like such things let them buy them and leave this £40,000 to be spent for the relief of poverty and distress...
...Cord's natural comparative, Henry Ford, whose famed saying (often misquoted) was: "I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. . . . The only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today...