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...designed by an enthusiastic artist named Earl C. Liston. It costs $5,000, about $1,000 more than an ordinary chamber, but it is worth it. With its hydrocyanic gas, it can kill two humans at a time, quickly, efficiently, without any mess. Says Earl Liston, with a craftsman's pride: "Our calculations show that this new chamber should snuff out the life in about 15 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Death in an Octagon | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper . . . Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern ; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contra Naturam | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...exploit to the limit each of these climactic events was easier for Director Frank Lloyd and his cinemauthor associate, Howard Estabrook, than to relate them coherently and plausibly in a film of less than two hours' duration. Too experienced a craftsman to suspend the full weight of so freighted a period on romance's slender cord. Director Lloyd makes a valiant try at hooking up Wells & Fargo with everything in sight, from notorious Lola Montez to Lincoln's second inaugural address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Public service is fast becoming the keynote of modern legal training. The young lawyer must learn to act as a mediator of human affairs rather than as a craftsman. Although the Law School will try to develop this attitude in its students, it will not relax its technical training in the least, Dean Landis added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landis Calls Public Service Keynote of Legal Education | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

...subcontractors and workmen heard that Henry Willet was designing a "Workmen's Window" to represent the various trades engaged in building the church, they clubbed together to pay for it. Designer Willet happily put Architect Carroll at the bottom of the window, looking pale, and the stained-glass craftsman at the top, under a benevolent angel. A vine etched in gold joins the 14 figures in between-iron worker, excavator, stone mason, carpenter, woodcarver, electrician, roofer, plumber, plasterer, painter-and lettering sets forth: "We Are Laborers Together; Let Every Man Take Heed How He Buildeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Laborers Together | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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