Word: manual
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...should not avoid its obligation to inculeate some citizenship and some science. I do not frankly see why the school should be forced to abandon the growing idea of catering to some one or two of a boy's enthustasms (magazine-writing, music, drawing, nature study in various forms, manual training or commercial geography, in its ramifications) in order to satisfy the rules of our colleges and universities that a modern language must be mastered before the candidate is eligible for a degree. The Progressive idea, in its essential features, has come to stay: and the secondary school must solve...
...modern U. S. artist whose art is securely grounded in this respect. In his new book of essays, The Painter's Craft, published a month ago by Scribner's, Critic Cortissoz persuasively explains his emphasis on technique. Says he: ". . . who shall say where the 'manual dexterity' leaves off and the mysterious alchemy of that intensely personal thing, 'touch,' begins? . . . The ponderables and imponderables in this matter are inextricably fused. To grasp the former is to lay hold of an infallible key to the latter. In other words, the painter's craft, allied...
Professor Saunders is also associated with the "Physical Laboratory Manual", a book written in collaboration with E. L. Chaffee, Professor of Physics...
...Manual for Trade Unionists...
Tibbett. His father was sheriff of Kern County, Calif, at the time of the oil boom. Lawrence, born in 1896, found out in the Manual Arts College of Los Angeles that he could sing. He studied with Frank La Forge in Manhattan, served in the Navy, married, got a job with the Metropolitan Opera Company. One night in 1925 an odd thing happened to him. He was sitting in his dressing room after the second act of Verdi's Falstaff-his aria, "E sogno," had ended the act. He heard the house applauding but thought they wanted the Falstaff...