Word: workers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...your work, live your lives so that the people in every community where your lives are to be lived and your work is to be done; shall say of you - 'Look at that man: He is a faithful worker, unselfish neighbor, loyal friend; a patriotic citizen, a righteous man - and all this, not in spite of the fact, but all the more because of the fact, that he was the longest punter or the hardest tackler on the famous '94 team of the University of Pennsylvania...
This evening at 7.30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, Rev. Dr. Henry Lunn is to address the religious societies on "Christian Reunion." He is a young man of only forty years but a great worker. In London every Sunday about 1250 poor boys gather to listen to him as chaplain of the Polytechnic School. Apart from other work, however, he is president of the "Grindewald Conferences," which last summer numbered 2500 of the most prominent religious leaders of all denominations from Europe and America. He will show in his address the need of this union and the essential points on which...
Tintoretto was the most rapid worker of the four, and it is not to be expected that all his work should be up to his highest standard, which was scarcely inferior to Titian. He combined the early line work of Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about...
...direction and guidance of competent architects that we can hope to acquire this subtle capacity which is one of the fundamental requirements of the beginner. Inspiration in composition is only to be obtained by the hardest kind of work, and it will come much oftener to the steady persevering worker than to the brilliant genius who waits...
...work, which was at times most perplexing and most discouraging, could ruffle his spirit or make life a burden to him. He could look through all the troubles of his office, and though conscious of their presence, could see beyond them a word of beauty land truth. A hard worker while he worked, he always had the life about him to cheer him and give him rest. To live, to move about in the sunlight in a world of trees and flowers and birds, this was his highest pleasure. His death, then, seems almost a double death, in that...