Word: penmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outburst of penmanship had brought the refinery to a virtual standstill and produced 1,200 grievances. Only one appeared legitimate; a worker complained that his section of the plant was not properly ventilated. Others urged that the refinery negotiator be dumped in the nearby Houston Ship Channel, that the company provide workers with an on-the-job burlesque show; a third said that he got his pants wet from dew on weeds outside the refinery. Protesting that the union was pulling an illegal version of the sit-down strike, Crown Petroleum closed down the entire refinery for safety reasons. Later...
...days later, King George VI was sitting at his Georgian walnut desk in the lofty blue and white study of the palace, reading the morning's mail. Among the letters with embossed headings he saw Alfred's cheap writing paper and careful penmanship. He reached for it, read it twice, then handed it to his secretary with instructions...
...Penmanship. In Walla Walla, Wash., a week after Francis Drake got a suspended sentence for petty larceny and a dollar in cash from benign Judge T. A. Paul, he turned up in court on a forgery charge, explained that he had used the court's dollar to buy a fountain...
...capacity for absorbing new ideas, more-than-average flexibility. Thus their scripts differ from those of our contemporaries who may write a "copper plate" hand which contains the same elements as the writing they were taught at school 20 years and more ago. This subconscious clinging to the penmanship carefully learned in school so long ago is often an indication of lack of originality, inflexibility, lack of self-confidence-in short, a standstill in mental development...
...Angeles, teachers are no longer required to pass a penmanship test before getting a job. Complained a supervisor: "It's not unusual to see a teacher drilling her class in writing and a few minutes later doing blackboard work in an unreadable scrawl that is entirely...