Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-known Still Life by Cezanne from the Birch-Bartlett Collection in the Art Institute of Chicago. In this, as in the landscape ("Tournant de Route a Auvers") lent by Mr. John Nicholas Brown, Cezanne is shown as the searcher of new paths and rhythms. The modelling is done by means of colour...
...many changes in the last forty or fifty years. Originally there was the drummer whose chief function was simply to unload; then came the salesman who again tried more or less to unload the product, but who usually sought to do a more intelligent job than had previously been done. As business has developed the purchasing agent has come into being, the service element has been stressed, sales methods developed for the benefit of the retailer, until now the term "travelling representative" is much more fact than fiction. Manufacturers today seek to keep the good will of the purchaser...
...case of the salesman of suspension bridges it will mean carefully examining the map of the territory for possible business and calling on the county and state commissioners. Much has been said of that indefinable personality which a salesman should have. Here I think, however, we have again done some debunking. The only personality requirement for successful sales work is that a man be an adequate representative of his concern and that he be socially acceptable to the class of customers on whom he calls...
Marble is the aristocrat of sculptural materials. Like an aristocrat it is sumptuous but brittle. Subjected to undue stresses it splits and cracks. Thus the transportation of marble is ticklish, and cannot be done with casual maneuvering as can steel girders. Sculptors exercise prodigious care in moving marble statuary from studios to sites. One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving...
...year ago, one of the outstanding publishers told me how you and Briton had come to him for advice before starting TIME. Not content with his general statement that it coul be done, he said that he had gone into detail as to how impossible such a venture would be. He then added, 'The only mistake in my estimate was that I had omitted their stroke of genius...