Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authored more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and Rudolf Friml. Among his hits...
Patiently, Kaoru ground and polished an eight-inch parabolic mirror. He made a tube out of tin plate. The whole instrument cost him only $20. At first it did not work very well, as is usually the case with home-made telescopes. But Kaoru repeatedly took it apart to reduce its faults...
...beaten him in Canada previously. Niederhoffer got the jump on the fast and skillful Chapman, keeping him up front in the court. The match went to 2-2 in games and 12-12 in points in the final game when Chapman cracked under pressure, hitting several shots into the tin. Niederhoffer took the game...
Miss Cummin, who lives in a single in Briggs Hall, has placed seven black shower curtains around the walls and gold tin foil on the ceiling. Two black umbrellas hang on one wall, and green fringe from a hibiscus tree in the window...
...first letter, dated Jan. 8, Mr. Gates told her that an inspection over Christmas vacation had revealed that her room was a fire hazard. Miss Cummin answered the next day, saying that she had tested the drapery and tin foil and found them not flammable, but that she was willing to spray the entire room with fireproofing if they wished...