Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their sources in instincts which are comparable to the light instinct of the heliotropic animals. The need of and the struggle for food, the sexual instinct with its poetry and its chain of consequences, the maternal instincts with the felicity and the suffering caused by them, the instinct of workmanship, and some other instincts are the roots from which our inner life develops. For some of these instincts the chemical basis is at least sufficiently indicated to arouse the hope that their analysis from the mechanistic point of view is only a question of time...
...Critics. The New York Herald: " He [Mr. Dell] means well, and, doubtless, he thinks he is telling the whole truth, instead of a part of it, and that part out of focus. . . . A book of altogether admirable workmanship, of much keen insight, but also one that is dangerously askew...
...workmanship, but she is not a masterpiece...
...written revamping of the same old triangle, and the problem as to whether a single miscue should ruin a woman's career. For some reason takes its place with the horde of "competent" novels of the present?neither good enough to shout about or bad enough to damn?capable workmanship in evidence throughout, but the product tastes lukewarm...
...best collection of these relics in the United States is at the Peabody Museum, Boston. At its height the Mayan race probably numbered several million people, and the population of Chichen Itza was about 500,000. Their decorative arts show exquisite workmanship. Astronomy and mathematics were highly developed. They had an elaborate picture writing, much of which has been deciphered, giving the clue to many dates in inscriptions and chronicles. Their calendar was the most complex and exact known in the ancient world, with a century of 52 years, and a year of 18 months of 20 days each...