Word: makers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...voted that the committee should obtain the most reasonable terms possible, and then place a book for subscriptions at Bartlett's. The election of other officers was then held, resulting as follows: C. C. Whitman, chorister; R. D. Smith, orator; A. B. Houghton, poet; G. R. Parsons, toast-maker...
...Maker of musical instrument, cheerfully rubbing his hands: "There, thank goodness, the bass fiddle is finished at last!" After a pause: "Ach, Himmel, if I haven't gone and left the glue-pot inside...
...distance between the college scientist's lecture room and laboratory, and the shop of the machinist, the joiner, the furniture maker, the stonecutter, is no longer remote. One of the highest college-bred men of the present time is Prof. Huxley, and one of the strongest advocates of college and university training for all whose opportunities and means will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced...
Auctioneer, whose acquaintance with Latin is limited: "Going, gentlemen, going, an eight-day clock, in a mahogany case made by that celebrated maker, Tom Fugit...
...maker of a foul machine...