Word: handiwork
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...Harvard School was under the direction of Mr. R. P. Budgman '18, who supervised the instruction of Music, Bible, Hygiene, Calisthenics, and Handiwork. Classes were held every morning from 9 to 12 o'clock with an average daily attendance of nearly 90 students...
...Kansas Industrial Court Law, famed handiwork of former Governor Henry J. Allen, received a severe blow when the U. S. Supreme Court reversed one of its findings. The Constitutionality of the Kansas law was not directly ruled upon. The ease was one in which the Industrial Court had ruled that Charles Wolff Packing Co., of Topeka, must increase the wages of its employees, although the company was not then operating at a profit...
...building marks the beginning in the United States of efforts to "uphold esthetic standards and to reward noble craftsmanship". There are numerous art museums and libraries, but this is the first building in this country for an Academy which will recognize and preserve without danger of destruction, the distinguished handiwork of the representatives of the five creative arts...
...names are no; the only handiwork of the industrious scholar. One man, a student of the Greek dramatic poets, has carved a miniature Greek amphitheater, so perfect in detail that even the button for turning on the footlights is seen. Another man, attempting to reconcile the material ugliness about him, has made a bas-relief of a beautiful woman. A Kentuckian once carefully cut out his name, and the next hour another Kentuckian came along and whittled out the first Kentuckian's name to make place for his own. Thereby was a famous fend started...
Meanwhile Lenin and Trotzky were looking at the same poster, their handiwork, in the dining room of the ex-little father, Nicholas. And Lenin had his feet on the table where Princess Olga once spilled her soup, and Trotzky was tapping with his knee the spot where the Czarevitch had once stuck a cud of Wrigleyitch...