Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition of the works of William Blake is now being held in Gallery IX of the New Fogg Art Museum. There are original drawings, reproductions of watercolor drawings for "Young's Night Thoughts," engravings for the "Book of Job," "Dante," and "America," and a copy of "Young's Night Thoughts" illustrated with engravings made by Blake from his watercolor drawings...
...from a five-day, but from a seven-night job came one early experience from which Mr. Ley learned a lesson which later was to stay well by him. He was earning $1 weekly as lamplighter for Worcester, Mass., gas lamps. Twice, on cold January nights, he skipped one light on his beat For the first omission he was rebuked; for the second, discharged. Said Mr. Ley, many years after: "The greatest of all virtues is thoroughness. Nothing is ever really done until it is done right. This lesson I learned early in life...
...upon my body by some competent person." The competent person whom he preferred is Dr. Aleś Hrdlička, who is a doctor of medicine as well as chief anthropologist for the Smithsonian Institution. "Dr. Lamb was too dear to me," said Dr. Hrdlička when the job was put up to him last week. So Major George Russell Callender, curator of the Army Medical Museum...
...solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement of motors on such a ship. Maybe they would be in tandem, one behind the other, maybe they would all be in one line...
...airsick: "I ate an orange but it wouldn't stay put. . . . Then I tried a tomato but it had a round trip ticket, too. I drank some water and it was the same story over again so I finally got tired and gave it up as a bad job...