Word: workbench
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copley painted Paul Revere sitting in shirtsleeves at a workbench, but he would never have portrayed a common stevedore. He married into society, and the Boston Tea Party came as a shock and a bother. In 1774, Copley sailed out of trouble to England, leaving behind a harshly energetic and thoroughly credible portrait gallery of such political rebels as Samuel Adams and Thomas Mifflin...
...reading rooms are designed as study halls alone, and will house no book-shelves or reserve desks. Casting aside the classic theory that a hard workbench provokes great mental effort, the plans call for six rows of easy chairs in each of the reading areas, as well as blocks of working "stalls" where men can study and take notes in privacy...
...Fairyland. For two harried days Judge Picard, an able, conscientious jurist, tried to get somebody to help him define a trifle. Nobody would. Judge Picard recalled that, before the Supreme Court decision, the company had claimed that it took 14 minutes to walk from the time clock to a workbench. The union had said it was only a minute and a half. Now the company claimed that walking time was only two minutes; now the union said...
...passengers contributed a bale of magazines and books, a phonograph for the wounded. Every morning the women rolled bandages and dressings, at card tables lined up as a workbench...