Word: etaoin
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...graduate school of arts and sciences but for the time being this area has been one of the most profoundly affected by the draft. I doubt, however, that graduate and professional schools, generally, are changing their admissions policy sin favor of women because of the draft, although omnibus. The ETAOIN N.....N of the draft, although some may have found that in practice they can be more certain of their enrollments when their classes include a high proportion of those people who are not eligible for military service, specifically women, the physically deferred, veterans, those over twenty...
...very first opportunity for such responsible action occurs on the Sachs Estate, a vacant six-acre site on the Cambridge-Somerville line. Following years of opposition by faculty members living in the area, which served to prevent any construct oin, theto? Rbrc etaoi etaoin N.. prevent any construction, the University decided to build about 120 units. Under pressure from within the University and the community, the number has been increased to 300 units, and a development proposal will shorly be submitted to the City Council for necessary zoning...
...first two vertical lines, reading downward "etaoin shrdlu," often appear in print. Having felt himself make a slip, the linotypist will run his finger down those two lines to make an obviously pied line of type which the proof staff will surely, but does not always, catch...
Last week, noticing that the Literary Digest had reprinted an "etaoin shrdlu" line, apparently as a joke but without bothering to explain the mystery to its readers, the ever-practical New York World explained editorially for laymen what every newsman knows...
...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 on his right hand...