Word: workbench
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...Fairyland. For two harried days Judge Picard, an able, conscientious jurist, tried to get somebody to help him define a trifle. Nobody would. Judge Picard recalled that, before the Supreme Court decision, the company had claimed that it took 14 minutes to walk from the time clock to a workbench. The union had said it was only a minute and a half. Now the company claimed that walking time was only two minutes; now the union said...
...passengers contributed a bale of magazines and books, a phonograph for the wounded. Every morning the women rolled bandages and dressings, at card tables lined up as a workbench...
...wealthy enough to buy wife No. 1 a splendid funeral, lived to be 93, and kept on making finer & finer violins up to the year of his death. Contemporaries described him as a long, spare figure of a man who spent virtually all of his waking hours at a workbench littered with the tools of his craft...
...shall be interested both in engines for aircraft and in aircraft themselves," said Researcher Lawrance. To Mr. Lawrance, famed as the man who has done most to develop air-cooled engines and as father of the Wright Whirl wind, the new arrangement is really a return to laboratory and workbench. As a youngster at Groton, school for rich men's sons, Charlie Lawrance neglected his language classes in favor of mathematics, started building an automobile. As a Yale freshman in 1901 he and a class mate and a Harvard friend completed the car and drove it-the second ever...
...begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants up the social...