Word: workers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...portal sculpture belonging to the first half of the thirteenth century. Among the most interesting of the other objects, are the nine statues, of heroic size, of the founders of the cathedral at Naumburg; and the tomb of St. Sebaldus, the most famous work of Peter Fischer, the Nuremberg worker in bronze. The work best known to the public is probably the colossal bronze statue of the Great Elector, at Berlin...
Baldwin is a hard worker but is uncertain and inclined to throw while off balance. His batting is weak, and he has a good deal of room for improvement all around...
Photographic work differs from the painter's in that the painter resorts to his own inner imaginative creation and moulds his production in every detail in accordance with it, while the camera worker can only what beauty he may find in nature. There is an element of selection in each case. The painter selects from the landscape only those elements that correspond to his imaginative ideal, while the photographer selects such a view as is in itself best arranged. The one selects all the details at will, the other such parts of nature as are best composed. Thus...
...greatness to political success; whose greatness was of such a stamp that he was not allured by suggestions of political influence as a reward for brilliant achievements in another line. He was a man without schooling, but of great genius, and an indefatigable worker; the story of his rise from walking the Mississippi bottom under a diving-bell to the position of the leading hydraulic engineer of his time, and more than any other man, the river's master, is wonderfully interesting, and loses no interest in the telling...
Burgess, captain and right end, shows commendable spirit and plays the hard, dashing football that counts; but he is slow in getting down under kicks, and often allows the runner to get outside of his end. Thayer, right end, is a willing worker, but seems unable to destroy interference or to be of great effect on the offense...