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This is to certify that Edbury Hatch has served a regular apprenticeship of more than four years with me in the carving business, that he is honest, temperate and industrious . . . A lack of business is the only reason that I do not employ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Museum at Home | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...criticism in addition to encyclopedia-style knowledge, the History will prove less satisfying. Too often it discusses writers as examples of "trends" or "forces" rather than judging them by the pleasure they can still yield to readers. What the History lacks most is individuality. Either because many academic writers employ the same rather soggy prose, or because the editors have pressed the essays into one stylistic mold, most of them read as if written by one man: a learned but conventional professor. (One happy exception: the chapter on "American Language," in which the gay, strong hand of H. L. Mencken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many Minds | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...drart to the poll will have a slightly different approach than the old one, Brynteson explained, and the answers will not be "straight yes or no" as in the previous questionnaire. Whether the poll would employ the sampling technique advocated by the Council is still not definite, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brynteson's Food Poll Ignores Council Vote | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

...addition to the Administration would be Washington's lame-duck Governor Mon C. Wallgren, who had sat right behind Harry Truman in the Senate. The word was that the President would employ Wallgren as a liaison man between the White House and his old friends in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Steady On | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...same time, Leibowitz offered suggestions as to tactics which the lawyer could employ on behalf of his client...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leibowitz Rounds Out Law School Workshop | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

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