Word: craftsmanship
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...craftsmanship of the Dewey campaign became evident. It was seen that he had been wise, in the weeks when he alone was on the stump, to get well-planted the broad bases and main points of his positive program. This job was necessary work, but also, to a great many voters, somewhat dull. Dewey's shrewd timing became apparent after Oklahoma City; with his main program staked out, he was now free, in the crucial weeks, to concentrate on the much livelier business of attacking Roosevelt's record-which he described as "terribly...
...brothers have always been happier in a shop than at desks. For three generations the Fishers had been American carriage makers. The brothers started their immense fortune on the painstaking craftsmanship learned in their father's blacksmith shop in Norwalk, Ohio. First to leave was the late Fred J., followed by Charles...
...Fishers soon earned a reputation for craftsmanship at low prices. They added a reputation as good men to work for. They paid high wages, spent more time with the men in the shop than at their executive desks. (Alfred often shot craps at noon hour under a sign sternly warning that the management forbade gambling on the premises...
...months ago, Whitey McNair, in tribute to the infantry, said: "[Their] guts and brains . . . put the finishing touches-the copper-riveted handiwork-on the craftsmanship of the air forces, the artillery, and the tank corps." Last week it looked as though Whitey McNair was off to do some copper-riveting himself. Best guess: he would command an American army group somewhere in Europe...
...Lieut. MacAuley and Corporal Stewart were out to kill more than an afternoon. As Ern Malley they wrote: "For some years we have observed with distaste the gradual decay of meaning and craftsmanship in poetry. Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent the Australian outcrop of a literary fashion prominent in England and America, a distinctive feature of which seemed to us to render its devotees insensible of its absurdity...