Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Gearhart, tavern worker, and Robert Pearson, railroad-yard checker, watched the big plane level off at one of the many shadowy knobs dotting Ensign Flat, a plateau east of the city. The plane flew past Ensign Peak. Any moment now Pilot Don Brown should bank, continue his half circle, sail in from the south. He didn...
Professor Gaus, an Amherst graduate, took his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1924, and has taught at Amherst and University of Minnesota. He has long been an interested worker in problems of civic improvement, and has lived in the South Boston House...
This salute given by the University to a faithful worker of 17 years service, came at 9:55 o'clock, at the same time that Vic's funeral was taking place...
Cleveland's new windows last week offered impressive opposition to this trend. They were not only magnificent and intricate examples of the stained-glass worker's art. They were Renaissance-style windows of the sort first-rate U.S. stained-glass makers had been studiously avoiding since the early 1900s. Moreover, the artist who had thus dared oppose the prevailing medieval style was the most famous of all present-day glass stainers: a stocky, bull-necked Hollander named Joep Nicolas, who arrived in the U.S. two years ago with a wife, two children and a load of glazier...
...painter to be a great success. He took every advantage of it. He was a cagey businessman, among businessmen who knew and valued good painting when they saw it. He was an apt amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models. He suffered less mental anguish than many a stockbroker, never experienced creative paralysis. He got nearly everything he went after...