Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Macaulay: ". . . There is nothing to stop you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. . . . Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your Republic will be . . . laid waste by barbarians in the 20th Century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth...
...Digest was a strange looking creation. Due to a compositors' strike, the magazine used typewriters to prepare its columns of editorial matter, photographed the final copy, made line-cuts from the photographs and went to press on schedule. The appearance of the magazine was ragged because the right-hand edge of the typewritten copy could not be evenly aligned. The Literary Digest, at this time, was offering a prize of $100,000 to anybody who would figure out a way to make typewritten copy square up like printed matter...
...goal of all inventors interested in the publishing business is a typewriter like I. B. M.'s which automatically "justifies" (spaces out) each line while the words are being typed, so that all lines come out even on the right-hand side. It would make I. B. M.'s electric typewriter and Mr. SpielVogel's elastic paper as outdated as celluloid collars. Undismayed, inventive Mr. SpielVogel announced last week that he has one called a Typrinter, which will be ready for manufacture as soon as he gets his patents, fills the bill...
...pictures were not posed, not acted. Ivens and Ferno suffered the bombardments with the people they show. They were under fire with the soldiers, frequently resorting to a hand camera so that they could get closer to the action. Opening shots are in Fuentidueña and the bare fields surrounding the village. The townsfolk go out to dig irrigation ditches, denied them by the old regime, so they can raise food for the defenders of Madrid. The camera moves from the village to Madrid, to the front, to an attack on a bridge, back to the town. University City...
...Paterson, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cooper left on a vacation. While they were gone, an unidentified woman broke into their house, put on a house dress, called a second-hand dealer, sold him for $25 furniture worth...