Word: dials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the result that the rate of bricklaying was doubled. Mr. Gilbreth has investigated almost every branch of work with the same result. He has invented the micro-motion and chronocyclegraph processes for determining the fundamental units and methods of industrial education. Before a special background fitted with a dial to record the time element, Mr. Gilbreth's expert assistant photographs the best workers in each trade to illustrate their methods. At 4.45 today at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, he will demonstrate the use of the moving picture camera as an aid in job analysis...
...insurance business, writing secretly at night. But he soon went to Italy for a year. On returning he became the editor of Sim-plicissimus (funny paper, now defunct). Buddenbrooks first appeared in 1901, when Mann was 26 years old. He now lives at Munich, is German correspondent for The Dial...
...consider him possessed of great beauty of style, others who see in his sentences grotesque and jumbled collections of words, those who find a sort of visionary health in his philosophy, others who pronounce his ideas those of a decided psychopath. Cham pioned by H. L. Mencken, by The Dial, by even so conservative a critic as Henry Canby, he is a man who must be reckoned with. No one, I believe, questions his genuine sincerity, and there are many who believe that time will find him the great prose genius...
...life being patient, then suddenly running away from life with an elaborate and perhaps unnecessary gesture. He was born at Camden, Ohio, where he was educated in the public schools. Later he worked as a laborer, fought in the Spanish-American War, wrote advertising copy, won The Dial Prize, attained a vogue in advanced literary circles, was married twice. He recently sued his second wife for divorce, charging her with desertion...
Bayard, Dela. Bruce, Md. Dial, S. C. Edwards, N. J. Glass, Va. King, Utah Owen, Okla. Shields, Tenn. Swanson, Va. Underwood, Ala. George,* Ga. Stanley...