Word: penning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Lawn Tennis association in reestablishing M. Forst as an amateur. Apparently this happy outcome was reached after the offender had handed over the tainted francs not to his manager Mr. Pyle but to the Association which dictates his standing. It was a situation well adapted to the pen of the famous columnist...
...office. Seven, instead of six, new commissioners would be appointed, at higher salaries. Two-party representation on the Commission would be abolished. With this new Commission, the President could utilize the flexible provision of the tariff law (50% changes in tariff rates at a stroke of the pen) with great facility...
...students. At the age of 16 he went from Russel's Collegiate & Commercial Institute in New Haven to Manhattan where he began drawing classical orders under the tutelage of Architect James Renwick for more than six years. This able mentor disciplined his pupil's design sense, his pen and pencil technique, later famed for its own sake. Then Architect Goodhue went to Boston where he soon became the partner of Ralph Adams Cram in a firm (Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson) destined to rank with such partnerships as McKim, Mead & White or Carrere and Hastings. Architect Cram...
...just one, it sums up to a rather low score. Did it consist of but the second act, it would be admirable fare. For this is sparkling, light, touched with wisdom. It has all the attributes of good comedy writing. Unfortunately, there are also from Mr. Burke's pen two additional acts, sandwiching this good one. As in all sandwiches, the meet is in the middle...
...Wesleyan University, for safekeeping, photographing and occasional exhibiting, arrived last week eight pages of cramped and cryptic handwriting. The bushywooled savant whose pen had scratched, squiggled, crossed out and corrected was no less a personage than Germany's Albert Einstein. These pages were the original manuscript of his Zur Ein-heitlichen Feld-Theorie (TIME...