Word: foolscaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word without a meaning is a dead word, a corrupt word. . . . Let us write that word in large black letters on a sheet of foolscap; then solemnly apply a match to the paper. . . . Now let us bray the ashes in a mortar with a goose-feather pen, and declare in unison singing together that anyone who uses that word in future is a ring-the-bell-and-run-away man, a mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises...
...behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed shop), extras' pay upped 10% with a null minimum, overtime pay for players in the lower brackets, revision of the Call Bureau...
...prime number is one which is divisible only by itself and 1. Thus 7, 13, 17 and 23 are prime numbers. In Chicago, one Samuel I. Krieger covered 72 sheets of foolscap paper, wore six pencils to stubs. Last week he announced a 72-digit prime number, challenged the world to show him a bigger one. His number...
...prime number is one which is divisible only by itself and 1. Thus 7, 13, 17, and 23 are prime numbers. In Chicago, one Samuel I. Krieger covered 72 sheets of foolscap paper, wore six pencils to stubs. Last week he announced a 72-digit prime number, challenged the world to show him a bigger one. His number...
...FOOLSCAP ROSE-Joseph Herges-heimer-Knopf ($2.50). Historical narrative of the rise & fall of Pennsylvania paper-manufacturers, 18th to 20th Centuries, made to seem significant by Author Hergesheimer's silkily persuasive style...