Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Workshop to Begin Again...
...spirit of the workshop . . . should inform every part of school. There should be a workshop for letters where poems and stories are made; workshops for dancing and for music; workshops for the art of living together in houses, that ridiculous name domestic science being forever anathema. . . . Not science but the goal of science is important. . . . Cookery, for example, is a better discipline in our schools than chemistry. The ingredients of a cake are science, art and good sense, all of which can be blended there into a very pretty simulacrum of the good life...
...year-old father live and work in a colonial house on Philadelphia's once swank Locust Street, now lined with doctors' offices. The Moennigs sit at benches side by side, poking quietly into ailing old masters with scrapers, knives, gouges, chisels. In a safe in their workshop are $250,000 worth of old fiddles which they take out and study constantly. To Violist Primrose a visit to their shop is "like going to a doctor. You say 'I feel this,' 'I don't feel that' and they will sit up with the instrument...
...block is bolted the large telescope - a 16-in. reflector in a 12-ft. galvanized iron tube. On the lower side are ascension and declination meters and counterbalance weights. The observatory is roofless. A square wooden platform provides working space. The lenses were ground in a small Escondido garage-workshop...
Last week she was busier than ever. She opened the United Nations' Relief Bazaar and the Christmas Seal campaign in Washington, visited the Good Will Industries workshop (see cut), popped in & out of capital lunches and teas...