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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a linotype operator makes an error he has to complete that line of type before he can make a new line. The easiest thing for him to do is to run his fingers down the first two vertical rows of his keyboard. The result is the emergence of a line containing "etaoin shrdlu." And when the operator forgets to pluck the faulty line from the mould, "etaoin shrdlu" gets into print. So often has "etaoin shrdlu" appeared with a "Mr." prefixed, that Mr. Etaoin Shrdlu has really become a famed press personage. He has a relative who dwells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Etaoin Shrdlu | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...degrees with distinction, and as a result are spending a large amount of their time on theses in their special field. With both of these falling due within a period of approximately two weeks the Senior inevitably turns from his larger work to fulfill the course requirement in the easiest and most rapid manner possible. This can hardly be of any great value to the student doing such work, or to the professor demanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG AND THE LITTLE | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

...forms of the musical romance, that built about the love-story of a composer would seem to be the easiest to present and the most successful. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. The latest attempt, on the boards at the Majestic, entitled "White Lilacs," a romance with music, based on the life of Frederic Chopin, has all the failings and few of the fortes of the genre. That is to say, one does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

...generally be laid to a too high sense of duty. Conscious of the distinction conferred upon them by a row of linotype machines at their bidding, they publish definite opinions on questions of supreme importance. Too often there is no firm foundation of fact, and because disapproval is the easiest course for misinformation, the result is the cynicism which has become a byword...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DAILY MIRRORS | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

...winter competition will be interrupted after three weeks of work in December by the Christmas recess. It is for this reason as well as for the shorter term of its duration, the easiest of the three try-outs for the CRIMSON allotted each class. A minimum of time and effort is required from candidates during the examination period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON STARTS WINTER TRIALS MONDAY EVENING | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

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