Word: handiworks
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...exhibit of Pre-Columbian art now being shown at Fogg Museum is undoubtedly one of the most fertile and satisfying collections yet seen within the halls of any museum. The precise but masculine sculpture and handiwork of the Aztecs and Mayans cannot help but inspire in the minds of a spectator an inextinguishable spark of admiration for those cultures of the New World which preceded ours by several hundred years...
Admiral Mclntire looked on his handiwork last week, found it good. In a few days Franklin Roosevelt will be 58 (Jan. 30). Knocking on wood, Dr. Mclntire noted that this winter the President has had no colds-last winter he was plagued with them. His health, said the doctor, is at least equal to that of the average man of his age; his physical energy much greater...
Elliott threw the switch. The murderer stiffened epileptically; 1,700 volts crackled; smoke spurted from his head. Few minutes later Electrician Elliott unfastened the head electrode. Guards hoisted his handiwork onto a table, wheeled it into the autopsy room. So hard had young Elliott concentrated on doing a clean job, he forgot to feel any emotion...
Even single-minded Dr. Beaven unlimbers a little at the sight of suffering air-raid victims, stops his girl hunt long enough to patch them up. When Japanese undo his handiwork by bombing the hospital, a shrapnel splinter lodges in Dr. Beaven's scientific brain, stays there until Dr. Forster, rushing by plane, sampan and pony, arrives in time to remove it, in the most delicate operation of his life. Science, says he, can do no more, but science cannot bring Dr. Beaven out of his coma. When Audrey's timely arrival turns the trick, Dr. Forster piously...
...bulwark against Communism, the believers in Communism as a bulwark against Hitler, newspapermen, diplomats, intelligence officers, liberals, a skyful of hopefuls lit by the lurid glare of reality. The roar was terrific. Gleefully in Berlin Nazis gazed, spellbound and wondering, at the Führer's mighty handiwork...