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Word: handprinted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the arrival last week of a set of "Identimat" handprint encoding machines and the narrowly aborted threat that our hands would be scanned electronically every time we are. It seemed to many people as thought the shadow of the Police State had passed over Harvard. One University vice-president voiced a general sentiment when he said that the new machines would be more appropriate in Leavenworth than in the Freshman Union, and he was expressing more than just a personal feeling of outrage--his reaction betrayed the sure instinct of a public relations officer confronted with botulism...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Thumb Screws and Firing Squads | 7/8/1975 | See Source »

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