Word: workmanship
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...first poem by an American to take the Newdigate Prize. If it suggests that the author is not inevitably a poet, but rather a man of literary taste and poetic feeling, it cannot be alone among Newdigate Prize poems in this respect. It is everywhere sound in workmanship, dignified in manner, high in thought...
...club formed an agreeable element in the program. Of these, first mention should be given Mr. Foster's "On Beaches and Dunes" for its harmonic individuality and charm of original sentiment. Mr. Sweet's "Warum sind die Rosen so blass" was a close, second as regards sentiment and workmanship. As a whole, the club is heartily to be congratulated upon the signal success of its concert...
...obviously to protect the commercial side of the enterprise until the national theatre and the national drama are so firmly established in popular favor and comprehension as to pay their own way. Another duty is to provide machinery for keeping alive such plays of literary value and artistic workmanship as may not immediately catch the ear of the great public, but which yet have signs of future life and growth in them. Again, it is plainly the duty of a national theatre to give performances of the classical masterpieces of the language. Once more, it is the duty...
...spite of these drawbacks a biplane has been produced which compares favorably in workmanship with many successful machines. It has the unique features of being the lightest biplane ever constructed and of having no rear planes. The ingenious combination for controlling up-and-down direction and maintaining transverse stability by means of a single pair of anterior planes is a feature of great possibilities which has never before been embodied in a full sized aeroplane. In the progress of the science of aviation, the "Harvard I" will pray its part by demonstrating the practicability of the new ideas embodied...
...Harvard I" is of the biplane type, with a wingspread of 24 feet and a supporting surface of 200 square feet. The controlling elevators are the feature of the machine, and present 35 square feet of surface. The workmanship throughout is of spruce, hollowed for lightness and laminated for strength. The weight of the framework is about 150 pounds, and of the engine and propellor 200 pounds, making the total weight of machine and operator about 525 pounds, the lightest biplane ever built. The engine is four-cylinder, air-cooled, and will develop 30 horsepower...