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Word: tinkers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department. He gets his fun shooting deer with a few old cronies from the Chowder & Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools to sap up "assurance." His kids baffle Jeff. Why did Tom become a commercial artist instead of coming into the business? Why does Tinker feel Gateway is dreary, her family "common"? Jeff yearns for the simple days of bathtub gin and Coolidge prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Babbitt | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Northeastern started to reach Webb in the third inning. With two away, second baseman Tinker Connolly singled to left and came all the way around when Andy Allan's drive to left took a bad bounce between Akillian and Foynes...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Nine Trips Northeastern, 6-4, on Last Inning Rally | 5/24/1951 | See Source »

...government's program for organizing benevolence from Whitehall­Sir Charles knows his way around a bureaucracy. But Armitage feels obsolete. "All now was duty, nothing was love," Author Bentley has him reflect. "He was called vermin by a Cabinet Minister and told he did not matter a tinker's cuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yorkshire Contrasts | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

There is nothing "modern" about his house, at least in the stiff, sterile, museum sense. It look's like the home of a traveling tinker, cluttered with gadgets, junk and such craft objects as an old cradle scythe, an Algerian blanket, a tom-tom, a coffee table made from a square sheet of aluminum, calabash rattles and rattles made of beer cans filled with pebbles. Somehow, Calder's wife Louisa keeps the place livable, and their two children play happily among the mobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Connecticut Yankee | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

After the dress rehearsal, Burgin singled out the bassoon section for special praise. Theodore J. Schultz 4G is first bassoonist and John F. Tinker, instructor in Chemistry, is second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stanger Makes Debut As Conductor | 12/6/1950 | See Source »

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