Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard-Yenching Institute for Chinese Studies, located at Harvard University, in the course of the past year has obtained from the Tsukiji Type Foundry Company of Tokyo a font of Chinese and Japanese type containing 10,500 individual characters. The choice of the font is such that any ordinary expression is contained therein and they will be used in the publications of the Institute dealing with the history, literature, art and languages of China and Japan...
...intention of the Institute to supplement this font with a rarer and aberrant from of characters as time goes on and the need arises...
...total number of characters met with in the literature of the two countries amounts to some 25,000, but the great majority of these are only rarely met with. About 6,000 characters are really in common use. The quantity of individual characters in the font vary from 500 to 5, the average being about...
...Swash: a letter introduced into a type font for ornamental purposes...
...chemists. Later a third method (little used today) was found using copper hydroxide and ammonia, and still later came a fourth in which the final product is not cellulose but cellulose acetate. Viscose rayon leads in U. S. production; the costlier acetate rayon?of which Du Font's much publicized fabric "Acele" is an example?is second. Most industrial chemists feel that nitrocellulose rayon is technologically obsolescent if not quite obsolete. Tubize Chattilon was the only plant in the world making nitrocellulose when it ceased operations...