Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be boxed and stored. He would carry the process one step further, use standard card-catalogue cases, simply microprint each book on the back of its card. There would be no writing out of slips, no waiting for books to be brought from the stacks. An average library file drawer containing 2,300 cards, estimates Rider, would hold as many "books" as 168 ft. of shelves. It is already possible, he reports, to microprint 250 book pages on one side of a 3 in. by 5 in. card. He asserts that this number can soon be doubled...
Sunday Special. In the Atlanta, Ga. Sunday Journal, a want ad wanted a strange mentality: "TYPIST-FILE CLERK, smart enough to be worth $135 a month, yet dumb enough to start for less...
Mule Sense. At first the mules brayed in distress when the caravan was attacked; amateur muleskinners hauled them away in all directions. The mules resisted loudly: they had been taught by U.S. cavalrymen to trot in a decorous file after a bell mare...
Partisan detachments and pack animals in pokret, often camouflaged by green branches tied on their backs, sneak through the wilderness in single file, some times stretching out several miles. Every man must shout, "Veza!" (Contact!) when he loses sight of the man in front or behind. Orders are continually passed from mouth to mouth along the Indian file. Our first pokret covered 25 miles of wilderness in 14 hours at night...
...measuring off the new landing ground, machine guns burst out on a nearby hill and the order came, "Pokret." The Germans, guided by the Chetniks, were breaking into the highland. At dusk 60 Partisan gunners held off the nearest group of 400 Germans at a ridge while our single file slithered west into the woods...