Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publication. The losses on marine mail are due in a measure to the Jones-White Shipping Act which granted "subventions" to U. S. ships carrying U. S. mails on long-term contracts. Other factors which have increased the deficit have been recent legislation granting increased pay for night postal work, increased allowances to fourth-class postmasters, rate reductions on certain mail classes. The increasing use of the Congressional frank has added materially to the Post Office Department's deficits...
Chairman Legge led his Board away to temporary offices at the Mayflower Hotel, there to begin their work "immediately." Said Chairman Legge: "What we farmers must learn is to do collective thinking. . . . When we [of International Harvester] have a problem to solve we get all information in and lay it on the table and go over it collectively. . . . We all start together from scratch and think collectively. . . . This is just the way I want to start the work of this Farm Board. . . . We will proceed slowly and surely because conservatism is necessary for safety...
Giving examples of colonial projects that deserved immediate assistance he mentioned a great drainage scheme in fever-ridden Sierra Leone, West Africa; works in Northern Rhodesia to accommodate the enormous copper developments there; railway work between East African Kenya Colony and the British protectorate, Uganda...
...many years ago, a tall, shaggy-haired man, none too neatly dressed, was bicycling home through Manchester early one morning. A bobbie stopped him, asked him where he worked. The aged cycler, Editor Scott, told him. The bobbie scowled and said: "Well, I should'a thought they'd let an old man like you get off a bit earlier than this." But to Charles Prestwich Scott work was life. He became the Guardian's editor at 26. He set out to make it one of the world's great newspapers. He succeeded at no expense...
Sculptor Epstein declared: "If the man in the street does not like the look of it on his daily way to work he can always avert his eyes. In any case, the artist who considers the taste of the masses is a fool and is stultifying his own art. . . . In all beauty there is an element of strangeness, of unfamiliarity, which ordinary, non-creative people find alarming. . . . In my Night there is a touch of the inhuman. That is appropriate to the vast, vague idea of night. You could not personify such an idea by an ordinary pretty human figure...