Word: handworked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything. His impressively good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected at the State Department and the White House...
Could so forget his handwork on which...
...rhetoric went a plan. All industry was to be divided into a dozen groups: 1) mining and rough metals; 2) machinery and electrical goods; 3) iron and other metal products; 4) building materials, glass and pottery; 5) chemicals, oils and paper; 6) leather, textiles and clothing; 7) food; 8) handwork; 9) commerce; 10) banking; 11) insurance; 12) transportation. Each group will have a leader, not elected by the industry, but chosen by Nazi authorities. Appointed chief leader last week was one Philip Kessler, director of Bergmann Electric Co. and almost unknown even in Germany outside his own industry. The German...
...largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions of Mainichi and Nichi-Nichi in Japanese, Motoyama published a daily Mainichi in English, made it the largest newspaper in that...