Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navy Yard workmen who had built the V-5 gave Mrs. Adams a silver platter on which was an engraved likeness of their handiwork. The V-5 is a long-range cruising vessel, 371 feet long, with a surface displacement of 2,760 tons.* She will be commissioned next May. Plans were hastened for starting construction on her twin...
Last week's pen-squiggling was provisional. Potent though they are, the bankers must submit their handiwork to statesmen of the Great Powers and small Belgium at a Second Hague Conference, expected to convene within six weeks. Last week, however, the Baden-Baden bankers did what they could to make their signatures imposing. They had no Great Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with...
Newsgatherers noting the growing popularity of knitting as a pastime for men in British society admired the handiwork of other noble needlemen-a handsome jumper by the Right Honorable the Earl of Harewood (formerly Viscount Lascelles, spouse of Princess Mary); scarves and mufflers by Baron Gainford, vice-chairman of the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd., and Baron Holmpatrick, famed Cavalryman...
...shrewd wangle in the Dominion Parliament, caused the defeat by one vote of the Cabinet of his bitter personal rival for leadership of the Nationalist Party, youthful Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (TIME, Sept. 23). This made necessary a General Election called for Oct. 12. Delighted with his disruptive handiwork, Billy Hughes celebrated one night last week by attending at Sydney, Australia, what he said was his first wrestling match...
Having disposed of last-minute details, the Senate Finance Committee last week completed its rate revision of the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, made public its handiwork. Its Republican members then took up the administrative provisions of the measure, which, by the system of valuation determined upon, will point the entire legislation up or down...