Word: foolscap
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...ready. He really should wear suspenders, but he would postpone that until chapter two; for the time being, he would have to keep seated. Vag carefully centered the blotters on the desk top, blew the dust off the top of the inkwell, and scratched his head. Oh yes, the foolscap, Rushing down to the corner, holding his pants up with one hand, he piked up his tuxedo and 100 sheets of watermarked bond. Cleaned and pressed they were; he piled them on his bed, but placed a whisk broom drawer , brought out and unlocked a small steel case, and took...
...Foolscap Sheets. Next day Halvard Lange discussed the Soviet note with Norway's cabinet. The note emphasized the fact that Norway has a common boundary with Russia-a 122½-mile strip on the Arctic tip of the Scandinavian peninsula. It asserted that the proposed Atlantic pact was an attempt by the U.S. and Britain to dominate the world. It asked Norway whether she was going to furnish the West with "air force or naval bases...
Lange went to his home behind the royal castle, relaxed in an easy chair, and drafted the reply in longhand on two foolscap sheets. He submitted it to Premier Einar Gerhardsen (his cellmate during the war in the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp), and to the foreign affairs committee of the Storting (Parliament...
...this activity is proceeding with no central organization, no church buildings, with few Bibles and hardly any hymnbooks. . . . The only Japanese Scripture in Ishikawa [Okinawa's capital] is ten pages of foolscap, which Mr. Toyama had written down from memory for his own devotions...
...Tokyo earthquake, Mr. Beard was asked to serve Japan as an adviser on municipal reconstruction. Nine thousand miles from home, the Beards saw U.S. history in a new perspective, felt a fresh enthusiasm for writing it. On the ship coming back they sketched the outline on big pieces of foolscap. In the twin studies of their new Milford home, looking out on the rolling Connecticut hills, they wrote The Rise of American Civilization, America in Midpassage, and The American Spirit - four volumes that told and interpreted the whole story in 3,362 lucid pages...