Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choose among them on the basis of their special qualifications? If all citizens are endowed with the same political capacity, why let any one stay in office very long? Our reluctance to make use of experts in any branch of public administration is in large measure a by-product of this national obsession. The most formidable obstacle in the path of civil service reform is not the avarice of the politician. It is the deep-seated popular conviction that any able-bodied citizen, whatever his competence or lack of it, has an equal and indefeasible right to a place...
Brawn is the product made from chopped or ground and cooked edible parts of swine, chiefly from the head, feet, and/or legs, with or without the chopped or ground tongue...
Souse is the product consisting of meat and/or meat byproducts; after cooking, the mixture is commonly packed into containers and covered with vinegar...
Scrapple is the product consisting of meat and/or meat byproducts mixed with meal or the flour of grain, and cooked with seasoning materials, after which it is poured into a mold...
...such training in literary skill as is developed in musical conservatories. Experiment proved that this, at least to my mind, was impracticable. The only way to learn to write so that anyone will read it to write 'nulla dies sine linea' On the whole, the true school of literary production for the past century has been journalism. In the reporter's work there is reality unattainable academically. Taste is another matter and taste is the product of training. But after all nothing amounts to anything without a spark of what, when it appears in flame, we call genius. Charles Reade...