Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recruiting OGs. In that interval our office girls established themselves and their own traditions. Like U.S. military school plebes sent to fetch "the cannon reports" or "a yard of skirmish line," new OGs now have to find out the hard way that there is no such thing as "striped ink," a "paper stretcher," or the 13th floor...
July and August, especially, are months when ink gets more fluid and it is necessary to cut down on the thinner; when high humidity makes the absorbent paper stick to the rolls and break; when artists have trouble with their art, photostats get off the beam (expansion-contraction again), and what the sweating printer (working in temperatures up to 100 degrees) has to say about it all is unprintable...
Then Mary got married, and set up school in 1904 in Daytona Beach, Fla. "on $1.50 and faith." Her first pupils were five little girls and her son. They used charcoal for pencils, mashed elderberries to make ink. The curriculum included manual training; her pupils repaired junk-pile furniture so they would have something...
...Gisele, a thin blonde in her 30s, was a first-rank Dutch artist, known for her stained-glass window designs. During the occupation she spent half her days on bread lines to feed the men she was hiding. To help them pass the terrible time, she also found pens, ink and paper...
...conduct our business properly we have to know a great deal not only about the news but also about you. To find out about you-and about such sundry subjects as the paper and ink we use, the state of the nation's education, etc.-requires the same kind of painstaking research we do in order to authenticate the news we print...