Word: artisans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young "Wullie" Service went to work in a bank and began writing verses during office hours. Even then his attitude toward his craft was that of an artisan. His favorite technique was to plot the meter, write down the rhyming words at the end of each line, last of all fill in the lines behind them. In one of his early poems "there was a couplet I liked" : Love's exultant roundelay Issues in a wail of pain...
Last week 85-year-old Rene Lalique, a small, rheumatism-ridden man who looked a little like Lloyd George, died in Paris. He had been one of the most energetic artisan-manufacturers of his time...
...Work. But getting out the guns at Colt has long been hamstrung by a 100-year-old handwork tradition. In trying to graft war production of 6,800 guns monthly onto peacetime artisan manufacture of 400 yearly, Colt fell into a fearful production tangle. Typical example: Colt numbered all barrels at the beginning of assembly, as they had always done, and would not test finished guns unless they came up in sequence. Result: when one gun was pulled out because of a faulty part, the whole test line stopped. Quipped one worker: "Production was like a Rube Goldberg cartoon-everyone...
...grown in stature as the symbol of a nation. Many a Chinese finds fault with the social and political views of this strong, indomitable leader who rose from China's minor gentry to direct 450,000,000 people. But none fails to see him as the chief artisan of resistance and final victory over Japan, of equality at the table of the nations...
...joint concerts with groups from other colleges, the orchestra will perform five chorals, among them being DeBussy's. "Blessed Damosel" to be played with Sweet Briar College; Nagle's "Solitary Reaper"; "The Artisan," by Harriet Ware; and the "Messiah," by Handel...