Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest speaker will be Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English and Louis Sutro '38 will be master of ceremonies...
...Daventry 75 miles from London the Government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. went into action early this week with a fine sputter of pro-British Arabic. Guest star on the opening program was none other than Seif-ul-Islam Al-Hussein, the son of the Imam of Yemen...
...house-guest for the Christmas Holidays was a Harvard Junior who was required to submit, early in January, a forty-page paper in a course which I believe he referred to as "Ren. and Ref." Before his arrival he wrote to ask that I hire for him a typewriter with type of the standard size, for, as he pointed out, both the machines in my Study have the smaller elite type. His letter implied that he believed he could fill his assigned forty pages if the larger type-face was used, but not otherwise...
...When my guest arrived and saw the piles of books I had assembled for him by use of the bibliography he had sent me in advance, he was quite content to use the smaller type, for the heaped-up authorities in my Study at once made it apparent that there would be no difficulty, more serious than a back-ache, in filling the assigned space...
...triple space at will and leave margins of a width not prescribed. This permits the number of words to a page to be doubled or to be halved. Having spent all my business life in close contact with authors, editors, literary agents, printers and printers' link, I told my guest that the universal practice in the literary shop is to measure MSS by the number of words and not by the sheet or page. I even proposed that he ask his instructors in this course to follow the common practice. He received my suggestion with manifest horror and told...