Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This vote was passed in an effort to make the practise with regard to examinations in graduate courses more uniform, and was designed primarily to affect research courses in which the ordinary final examination was not constant with the work of the course...
...many and varied activities of the U. S. Department of Commerce is the work of the Division of Simplified Practice, which endeavors to save manufacturing waste by standardization of products. Thus, for instance, if curbstones in Manhattan are higher than curbstones in Chicago, and curbstones in St. Louis are higher than curbstones in Manhattan, and curbstones in Detroit are higher than curbstones in St. Louis, distressed is the curbstone maker and pleased would he be at the adoption of a uniform curbstone for all U. S. cities. Last fortnight Department of Commerce minds bent themselves to the task of simplifying...
...Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest that Irish-born Bishop Thomas James Garland of Pennsylvania, a fibrous old gentleman of 62, was a man with whom other, younger men, were not eager to work. Bishop Garland parried this suggestion with a wry suggestion of his own. "They all seem to be afraid of hard work," he said. "It rather amuses me" (TIME, March...
...Work Done. The House of Representatives last week...
Fragmentary, obscure, scattered in the recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls. Pieced together, the fragments recount Cavender, a man, virile, sensitive, arrogant, none too faithful to Laramie, his charming wife. Suspecting that she in turn had been unfaithful to him, he dashed her over a cliff. When early workmen found her body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified...