Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that the audience is on the stage from the start, that there is none of the uncomfortable five minutes usually spent in backing and filling until the craft gets under weigh, is evidence enough of "Listening In's" skillful workmanship...
...treasure already found includes a throne of state, the only one in existence, which proves by its exquisite workmanship that the craftsmen of that time were skilled as none have ever been since. The inlaid work on chairs, couches, coffers and even chariots was not crude or primitive but delicate and fine beyond belief...
...this method, the members of the new Guild have succeeded in arousing a powerful craft spirit of pride in speed and finish of workmanship, and have assured themselves a guaranteed weekly wage, regardless of weather conditions, for under the rules laid down by the initiators of the scheme every worker is to assist the progress of the job in hand at all times, regardless of weather conditions, which often make outdoor construction - impossible. The system has worked very well in the communities in which it has been tried. In fact on every occasion that the Guild has offered bids...
...next three prose contributions are not as individualistic as the others. There seems to be a little too much conscious effort in their workmanship. The verse is a pleasant relief in a garden of prose, and the all too scant allowance is varied, easy and expressive...
Just so much the more, then, is Yale University fortunate in its recent acquisition of the new Harkness Memorial. The group of buildings have been exceptionally handled in every phase of workmanship; even the fact that they cover a city block does not detract from their gracefulness, divided as they are into separate quadrangles and courts after the fashion of Oxford and old Cambridge. What is more interesting still, these same buildings, besides being excellent examples of architectural beauty, are consigned to a useful existence as dormitories. In this way yale's problem of housing all the students in college...