Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Take, for example, the spade and notice how each school treats it. For the Realist of the Ruskin type it is a tool of wood and iron, every fibre, every grain, every slightest characteristic of which, even the name branded in scarcely legible letters on the handle, must be painted with the most painful accuracy. For the Impressionist it is the symbol of labor, a mass of shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion...
...political purity, for from the highest to the lowest politician there are stains of corruption and taints of pollution. There is no form of vice which is not by them well represented; till the term politician has come to mean rogue, and this because the politician is the mere tool of his party; he loses his independence of action and becomes stamped Democrat or Republican, as the case may be. And where may we find the cure for these evils? It lies in the great mass of men who vote, and it will be found when each man stands...
...feet 4 inches wide, in the shape of a parallelogram with round turrets at each end and a boiler and engine room on one side. There will be four stories in all with a basement. On the first floor will be the wood-working machinery and the machine tool room over the boiler and engine rooms, besides separate draughting rooms for junior, senior and graduate students, lecture room, library and studies. The second floor will be divided up into rooms for various uses, the third for recitation rooms, studies and draughting rooms, and the fourth floor will contain two large...