Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courses in economics, social sciences, and American history were recommended for the potential journalist by Robert R. Brunn, San Francisco correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. He said, "Newspapering is more than a craft or an ability to string words together...
...camp, there came menacing news from across the Yangtze. The Reds were shifting armies closer to Nanking; along roads north of the river a steady stream of rice-laden wheelbarrows and donkey carts were building up Communist food reserves. Engines were being dismounted from trucks for installation in river craft. To aid their battle of ideas, the Reds were cocking...
...strain off a potpourri of the original music; he had taken six or seven of his best themes, added some new material, then stirred and blended it all into a symphonic piece, in the tradition of his great Death and Transfiguration (1889). Said Conductor Reiter: "Strauss's music craft is as perfect as ever...
...present standbys of the U.S. Air Force (the B-36, F-80, etc.) are much like the airplanes of late World War II. Behind these in the development series stand strange-looking craft like the Northrop Flying Wing and the six-jet Boeing B-47, neither yet ready for service. Even farther away from military use are odder airplanes, such as the model 7002 Consolidated-Vultee Delta wing, which looks like a big bomber's tail with the rest of the bomber missing (see cut). So far, the Delta wing has had only its test flights...
...bodies belongs to the esoteric, I am horrified at the appellation and price [$30,000] of the "sybaritic specimens." A "Coup de Ville" is improper French for the wrong type of carrosserie. A Coupée de Ville is a body with an open-type front as the Coach-craft Coupé de Ville I designed...