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  • In the fourth year the student is turned out a finished architect, after a course of the history of ornament, the theory of architecture, stability of structure, flow of gases, shopwork

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

  • The courses should follow the lines laid down in the general industrial course recommended for the junior high school, but with a greater proportion of the time devoted to practical shopwork.

    Wage Earning and Education Rufus Rolla Lutz

  • East Technical the shopwork includes joinery and wood-turning during the first year, and pattern making and foundry work during the second year.

    Wage Earning and Education Rufus Rolla Lutz

  • The _spirit-level_, and the _plumb-line_ which it has largely replaced, are in constant use in carpentering, but are rarely needed in shopwork.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • This course is designed for those who wish to teach mechanical drawing in grammar and high schools and for those who feel a need of the subject in teaching shopwork.

    The University of Virginia Record 1922

  • This course is designed for those who wish to teach mechanical drawing in grammar and high schools and for those who feel a need of the subject in teaching shopwork.

    The University of Virginia Record 1921

  • This course is designed for those who wish to teach mechanical drawing in grammar and high schools and for those who feel a need of the subject in teaching shopwork.

    The University of Virginia Record 1920

  • Housework! too servile; but then, compared to shopwork it was leisure.

    The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900

  • She had a heavy bundle on her lap, shopwork which she was taking home.

    Demos George Gissing 1880

  • The appearence of the cantilever bridge at Sukkur is bizarre in the extreme and the structure is economical in neither weight of material nor cost of shopwork.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

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