Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Printing each issue involved a complicated and laborious process of making a rough sketch of the layout, running the stories through a machine that coated one side of the article with wax, arranging the articles on a dummy sheet and then photographing the page with a giant camera...
...that changed in 1970, when The Crimson decided to switch to a "cold type" process in which a giant camera would capture each page of text on film. Production managers would shine light through the film, exposing a metal plate. The exposure, and subsequent development process, would change the surface of the plate, creating regions which either absorbed or repelled ink, and thus printed the image of the page onto newsprint...
...First World War. Later,the president reversed the paper's opinion, andthe paper encouraged students to take MilitaryScience courses. When a straw poll showed 70percent of the campus favored them, PresidentTheodore Roosevelt, class of 1880, responded witha letter to the paper, applauding the College'scommitment to "prepare our giant, but soft andlazy, strength...
...upstairs writing my last official close-out note, a magical, technological process is taking place downstairs. When the assistant night editors hit "print" on the computer screen, the page appears not on a piece of paper from the printer but on a negative from the Imagesetter. It's a giant version of those things we get back from CVS when our film is developed. Those negatives, in turn, are burned onto metal plates for use in the press...
...then technology stops again. I return downstairs with the rest of The Crimson's staff--young and excited as well as old and tired--and watch Brian put the plates in the press, start the giant machine by hand, and carefully, manually adjust the knobs and levers so everything is working perfectly...