Word: workmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth and sixth spots Where the Crimson's Bill Wister and Charlie Elliott dropped 3 to 1 matches. After the first game, Wister's match was the closest of the afternoon, finally going to Bart Lachelier of Yale, 15-6, 16-14, 12-15, 18-17. Don Workman topped Elliot...
...That was the greatest day of my life," the old priest recalls. Now he had more time for his beloved cave dwellers. Nearly every day, after saying early Mass, he changed into workman's clothes and took off on his motorcycle for Mt. Castillo. Out of the dirt floors came all the apparatus of the cavemen's lives: carved scepters, bone pins and needles, harpoons, stone lamps. Father Jesus' two-room apartment was soon full to overflowing. He appealed to the city for a place to house his collection, and was turned down. Churchmen told him that...
...Gabriel Horn, founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co., and made $150,000. Then he began to tinker with a shock absorber for autos. One day he was on a boat approaching a dock. As he now recalls it, his attention was directed by his secret partner "to a workman who was wrapping a rope around a pile, snubbing the boat." It gave him the idea for the first successful auto shock absorber, the Gabriel snubber...
Painter Braque does not like to be asked how he manages to stay young of eye. "There is only one thing in art,that is worthwhile," he says. "It is that which cannot be explained." Outwardly he is the same as ever, an even-tempered, meticulous workman sometimes called "France's first artisan." Though he is a wealthy man (half of his current show is already sold, at prices up to $30,000 a painting), he still rises at 6 each morning, puts in a full day sketching, painting, or just jotting down ideas. His pleasures are simple...
...hints at the poem's obscurity. On the opposite page, naked Jerusalem, symbolizing a sort of spiritual Utopia, chats with veiled Vala, who symbolizes earthbound womanhood. The children point the way upward to glory. At the top of the next page, Jerusalem tries to explain to a flaming workman that the French Revolution was not a happy one. Below stands the central figure of Time, flanked by Man with the sun on his shoulder, and Woman spinning a blood-red thread of mortal life...