Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Joseph ("Johnny") Evers, 65, one of baseball's immortals, crafty second baseman of the championship Chicago Cubs of 40 years ago, pivot man in the famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination;* of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Albany...
...Frank Chance died in 1924. Joe Tinker, last survivor of the famous threesome, is in Florida, recovering from a leg amputation...
Stop the 'Hail. G.E. does not plan to tinker with the whole U.S. atmosphere, but it has its eye on hailstorms, which do enormous damage to crops in certain parts of the country. Hail is formed when raindrops are sucked into rising currents in a thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...
...Tinker's Trap
...Billingsgate and to me. In so far as Billingsgate fish-market porters use oaths at all, they use far richer ones than "damn." And I did not, in fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase "a tinker's dam"-dam being any barrier, and, in particular, the wall of worthless dough "raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder" (see Oxford Dictionary...