Word: workmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middlesex Superior Court ruled Randall lost his $90-a-week job last March because of poor health steaming from his injuries. After he lost the job, Randall filed for compensation under the Workman's Compensation Act. The University contested his claim, saying that technically he was not a workman...
When the Industrial Accident Board classified him as a workman, Superior Court Judge Vincent Brogna awarded the settlement. His decision called upon the University to pay Randall $32.50 a week for the six months since the time of his dismissal...
...Board based its classification of Randall as a workman upon the nature of his duties. It defined one of them as "to quell disturbances, which requires muscular brawn...
...tried the locked doors of the darkened house, inspected'the yard until their flashlights' beams came to a cluster of wilting yellow chrysanthemums by the back porch. Shoveling the flowers aside, the agents started digging. As the sun came up, they stopped and waited until a workman, Claude James, came along the street. They gave him a job: digging for the body of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, murdered by kidnapers who had planted the chrysanthemums over his grave...
...first mass-production orders in the Civil War, when it supplied all the soap for the Union armies of the West. Then, one day in 1875, a forgetful workman made a mistake that was to mold the company's future: he left his soap-mixing machine running during lunch hour, thus turned out a batch of soap full of tiny air bubbles. It seemed a dreadful mistake, but somehow the batch got out of the factory...