Word: handiwork
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...Leopold Blaschka, whose handiwork that orchid is, was a glassblower, highly skilled in contriving the intricate models then as now used in teaching the sciences. His particular field was marine invertebrates, but as a pastime he made flowers with which to decorate his home. Persuaded by Harvard University he turned his full attention to glass flowers, and produced that unique collection which is now in the University Museum...
...were twirled around like so many rubber balls. As in a knife-throwing exhibition, it pitched sharp imposts at individuals and industries. It juggled normal rates, surtax rates, corporation rates, gift rates, inheritance rates, stock rates, dividend rates into a high and hazy jumble. Then it bundled all its handiwork up into one conglomerate bill, which it passed by vote of 327-to-64 and sent to the Senate with the hope that it would raise in new revenue the billion-odd dollars necessary to balance the 1933 budget...
...last week's proceedings were in the Committee of the Whole House and the votes, representing scarcely half the membership, were taken without roll calls. It was possible but not probable that the regular leaders could later wipe out the coalition's handiwork when the Committee of the Whole rose and the amended bill was put to a series of formal votes...
...important decisions made. A British Cabinet member addresses the House of Commons from the floor. A U. S. Cabinet officer does his talking obliquely to a committee of Congress. Nine times out of ten floor debate and votes are only amplified ratification of a committee's handiwork. The first job of a new Congress is, therefore, to set up its committees...
...This stanza is the peculiar handiwork of Tennyson alone. It was thought wise by the authors to allow him space in these columns and by this publicity to repay him in some small way for the debt incurred. Also the idea is a particularly happy one, and it does not lie within the powers of the present authors to improve upon the phraseology. The authors further wish to point out to their readers that the above work will be greatly enhanced if compared with the original poems, which can be purchased at your local dealer or directly from the factory...