Word: compositors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Townsend prizes, much sought after at Yale, has been given to Mr. John Bennetto of the senior class. Before he went to Yale he was a compositor, and has worked at his trade during vacations. This is an honorable record...
...life of a Chinese journalist is a happy one. He is free from care and thought, and allows all the work of the establishment to be done by the pressman. The Chinese compositor has not yet arrived. The Chinese editor, like the rest of his countrymen, is imitative. He does not depend upon his brain for editorials, but translates them from all the contemporaneous American papers he can get. There is no humorous department in the Chinese newspaper. The newspaper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment...
...variety" crew is what a smart compositor set up for "'Varsity" crew in an exchange...
...ways of a college catalogue, and particularly of a Harvard catalogue, are dark and mysterious. In the arts of delay Penelope herself is outdone by one of these. Perhaps, indeed, a hint is taken from this Homeric legend, and the compositor employs his nights in distributing the type that his days are occupied in setting up. However, repeated delays bring lots of free advertising, and make the final enjoyment all the sweeter, in addition to furnishing a splendid school of patience to innumerable amateur Jobs...