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Word: workbenches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy enough to buy wife No. 1 a splendid funeral, lived to be 93, and kept on making finer & finer violins up to the year of his death. Contemporaries described him as a long, spare figure of a man who spent virtually all of his waking hours at a workbench littered with the tools of his craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strads | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...shall be interested both in engines for aircraft and in aircraft themselves," said Researcher Lawrance. To Mr. Lawrance, famed as the man who has done most to develop air-cooled engines and as father of the Wright Whirl wind, the new arrangement is really a return to laboratory and workbench. As a youngster at Groton, school for rich men's sons, Charlie Lawrance neglected his language classes in favor of mathematics, started building an automobile. As a Yale freshman in 1901 he and a class mate and a Harvard friend completed the car and drove it-the second ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Industry | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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