Word: needlework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each.*His death-haunted spirit could not long function in the field of pure poetry, but Poe carried heavy weapons in journalism, which, to him, was a corpse-littered no man's land between art and business. By peddling and shamelessly pushing his articles and stories, by the needlework of his aunt and his grandmother's minuscule pension ($240 a year derived from Grandfather Poe's services during the Revolution), Edgar kept alive in the "literary snake pit" of 19th century U.S. letters...
...long as 2½ years, hundreds of thousands of diabetics all over the world have been treated with tablets of tolbutamide instead of insulin injections. Many have rejoiced at their new-found freedom from the need for daily needlework. Last week the Upjohn Co. (which markets the drug as Orinase) decided to lay on the line just what it will and will not do. To its Kalamazoo headquarters Upjohn invited 500 physicians to hear reports from Germany's Dr. Ernst Pfeiffer, one of the first investigators to use the drug, and from Chicago's Dr. Rachmiel Levine...
From all the syringe-wielders' needlework exhibited at the conference, there was no outline of such a cure-only research strands from which researchers may painstakingly build a pattern...
...sisters' needlework that first attracted John Trumbull to art. His father found the attraction inappropriate on two counts: first, young John had lost the use of one eye in a childhood accident, and second, he was a gentleman. Picturemaking, for the handsome son of the governor of Connecticut, was unthinkable. Accordingly, odd John was packed off to Harvard for polishing. There, however, he called on the greatest of American portraitists, John Singleton Copley, and painted and copied all the pictures he could. He was one of the first male American aristocrats to take brush in hand (Copley came from...
...from street to street shall weave old England's winding sheet," Pearl takes a dry delight in proposing that the "unfortunates," the "soiled doves," not only had a better time of it than their virtuous sisters sweating in domestic slavery or the nightmare of piecework needlework, but were better people in some ways than the severely swathed ladies and broadcloth gentlemen who regarded them as a "social evil...