Word: handiwork
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...through the streets than the quiet, inconspicuous candidate--it is merely the satisfaction of feeling that he alone of so many hundreds has his finger on the pulse of University affairs, that where the University arises in the morning to glance over the day's news it is his handiwork that it unknowingly scans...
...competitions are avowedly arduous, but the work is at most times congenial. To the CRIMSON candidate comes the thrill of seeing his handiwork in print and of filling a responsible part in a constantly moving organization. Responsibility increases with advancement on the CRIMSON and as a candidate advances in position, his ideas and originality are more and more counted on and developed...
Miss Eleanor Godley of Trenton, N. J., stepped back, dripping but smiling, and surveyed her handiwork. She had splintered a bunting-wrapped bottle of ginger-ale upon the nose of a monster all-metal bombing biplane at the Bristol, Pa., factory of the Huff-Daland Airplanes Inc. Bigger, stronger, all-metal, it was one of many new types of bombing planes that are abuilding in various shops for the Army Air Service, in competition to succeed the Martin bomber as official type for the national bombing fleet, which numbers at present, in Panama, Hawaii, the Philippines, etc., about...
...show that the lack of laughter glared ominously. The elaboration bore down upon the spectators' sensibilities and became oppressive. Accordingly, The Great Temptations stood forth as an exceptionally dull revue. It is not impossible that the producers may hurriedly purchase jokes and humorists in abundance and lighten up their handiwork. In such a case the show should be an enviable success; at present it is a lazy heavyweight. Miller and Lyles, colored comics, obliged with a few jokes. Hazel Dawn, one-time famed "Pink Lady," was the prettiest principal. But in a time of red-hot temptations, hers are mauve...
...Paris. Arrived there, he exchanged osculations with Premier Painlevé, who met him at the station. He still remained publicly non-committal-not without reason. Within a few days he knew that he must present his report to the Cabinet Council, decide whether to praise or damn his handiwork before the Chamber and prepare to justify his negotiations before the national convention of the Radical Party at Nice. He had need to listen and to reflect. Meanwhile, three interesting statements were made by others...