Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the Chinese knew all about the art of printing long before Gutenburg set up type for his first bible is strikingly evidenced by the little publicized but at the same time one of the most priceless possessions of Widener--a fragment of wood-block engraving from China, designed...
...Shih of Poking, one of the leading philosophers and men of letters in China today, has discovered that the Chinese scroll is from a collection of fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed from wood-block in the year...
...Wood-block printing was probably generally known in China about 800 A. D., he concludes. Printing of books on a large scale and under governmental patronage was done in the tenth century. Movable types, however, were not invented until the middle of the eleventh century...
Last year Louis R. Chauvenet '41 broke all previous records in wining his subscription. The chief stumbling block in past races has been procuring the all-important signature of the adviser, but Chauvenet browbeat his mentor into swift, unargumentative submission...
...through the arch formed by the cheek bone and the temporal bone (at the side of the skull), pushed the upper end of the jaw forward with a small steel bar, and wedged a block of cartilage, which he had cut from the ribs, in front of the ear. The block served as an extension of the jaw bone, soon grew firm and strong, advanced the lower jaw four-fifths of an inch (see cut). The new position of the jaw naturally changed the bite of the patient, but it did not take him long to get used...