Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terry Carlson, a librarian's assistant, said yesterday she has checked about half of the 200 questioned prints and found nearly half "nearly razored out," but she later changed her estimate...
...Library received warning of the thefts in a letter sent by Bowdoin College officials after they found many valuable Homer prints clipped from old magazines, estimating losses at $3000, Carlson said...
...Carlson said that the clipping did not look systematic because some volumes had been stripped clean while others were untouched. She said said it appears that someone was filling in a collection or picking up just certain prints...
...refugee from West Virginia comes in and says, "That line's been rollin' and tumblin' around my head all day. We gotta write a song about gittin' bit by a seeing-eye dog." His almost-heaven West Virginia accent laid me in the aisles, where I rolled over Tim Carlson, self-described "gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose, sloppy lunch eater" who kneed me in the funny bone, and from then on it was bubbly giggles, side-eyed glances, uproar...
...word comes from the Greek xeros, meaning "dry." It refers to the dry, electrostatic copying process (a quantum improvement over earlier wet photographic methods) finally developed in 1938 in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, by a penurious patent attorney named Chester F. Carlson. Xerox Corp. had revenues of $4.05 billion last year, and today accounts for more than half of all photocopier sales and leases in the U.S. (The chief producers of copying machines after Xerox...