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work and had
He had plenty of work to do.
The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.
Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.
My wish to meet Samuel Beckett had been prompted by simple curiosity and interest in his work.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
Amid a shortage of profitable work, the memory of Albert Johnson's $20,000 stood out in lonely grandeur -- the money had quickly melted away.
After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.
Never well known, but he had done his work competently.
Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.
The work had its beginning in 1938 with an eight-bar musical strain to which Koehler set the words `` There'll be no more work ; ;
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.
After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
Small wonder that Milton later boasted of how well his work had been received there, since he attained a rank in the order of commencing bachelors higher than that of any other inceptor from Christ's of that year.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
Rousseau had to admit that though he couldn't agree to a public performance, he would indeed, just for his own private satisfaction, dearly love to know how his work would sound when done by professional musicians and by trained voices.
All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.
His arm had been giving him some trouble and Rector was not enough of a medical expert to determine whether it had healed improperly or whether Hino was simply rebelling against the tedious work in the print shop, using the stiffness in his arm as an excuse.

work and broad
A work so broad, even when it is directed by a leading idea and informed by a moral vision, must necessarily `` fail ''.
It would come down to saying that Fromm paints with a broad brush, and that, after all, is not a conclusion one must work toward but an impression he has from the outset.
The broad conclusions of that pioneering work remain undisturbed, but subsequent research has expanded and somewhat altered their empirical support, has suggested important revisions in the general analytic frame of reference, and has sharpened the meaning of particular analytic concepts in this area.
One of the roles of the social scientist, ethicist or theologian in our discussions with the realtors became that of encouraging greater awareness of the opportunities offered by the legal and political processes for the exercise of broad social responsibilities in their work.
It combines qualities that are seldom found in one work: Scrupulous scholarship, a fund of personal experience, a sense of drama and characterization and a broad grasp of the era's great historical issues.
By comparison Whorf's other work in linguistics, the development of such concepts as the allophone and the cryptotype, and the formulation of " Whorf's law " in Uto-Aztecan historical linguistics, have met with broad acceptance.
Much of the work in biomedical engineering consists of research and development, spanning a broad array of subfields ( see below ).
This may indicate a co-owner as in a legal partnership or may be used in a general way to refer to a broad class of employees or temporary / contract workers who are often assigned field or customer service work.
In the broad sense, most chemotherapeutic drugs work by impairing mitosis ( cell division ), effectively targeting fast-dividing cells.
Though his work was broad and rigorous, it did not bring Diderot riches.
That ability would seem to be at odds with early epiphenomenalism, which according to Huxley is the broad claim that consciousness is “ completely without any power … as the steam-whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery ”.
He also created landscapes and scenes of people at work and play, using a new optimistic style — broad, loose brushstrokes of vibrant color with frequent use of white space and rare use of black — with only occasional references to his morbid themes.
Several decades after Pearson's work with early versions of meta-analysis, Glass published the first application of modern meta-analytic techniques and triggered their broad application across the social and biomedical sciences.
In a broad sense the theories implicit in most work within descriptive linguistics and linguistic typology fit within the category of functional linguistics.
Paulo Freire's work appears to critique instructional approaches that adhere to the knowledge acquisition stance, and his work Pedagogy of the Oppressed has had a broad influence over a generation of American educators with his critique of various " banking " models of education and analysis of the teacher-student relationship.
Although not unchallenged, validity generalization has broad acceptance with regard to many selection instruments ( e. g. cognitive ability tests, job knowledge tests, work samples, and structured interviews ) across a broad range of jobs.
A measure of Loach's difficulties gaining broad release for his work is the fact that this film ended up making only £ 12, 000 profit.
It is argued that Bloomfield's Indo-European work had two broad implications: " He stated clearly the theoretical bases for Indo-European linguistics ..."; and "... he established the study of Indo-European languages firmly within general linguistics ...."
A self-described liberal media watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ( FAIR ), in consultation with the Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University, sponsored an academic study in which journalists were asked a range of questions about how they did their work and about how they viewed the quality of media coverage in the broad area of politics and economic policy.
His work in medicine led to the development of a broad range of complementary medications and supportive artistic and biographic therapies.
Steiner's work has influenced a broad range of noted personalities.
Then with the dawn of new technologies such as electricity, the telegraph, and new forms of powered transportation, writers including Jules Verne and H. G. Wells created a body of work that became popular across broad cross-sections of society.
For the work of other postmodernists, such as Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover, a broad comparison to Surrealism is common.

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