Word: inking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oval table in the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland has been strewn every day for nearly three weeks with shiny leather portfolios, smudgy glass ashtrays, trim boxes of bank pins, glass wells full of purple and red ink, blotters with round bottoms like a child's tumble-toy, glass-stoppered carafes full of plain water and, in neat piles, hundreds of sheets of foolscap (see cut). Thus equipped the 14 men around the table (twelve august finance experts, two alert interpreters) have been toiling and quarreling as the Young Plan Advisory Committee on Germany's capacity...
When the time comes to consider the effect of the present depression on American life, it will be found that not all the entries are in red ink. The times that try men's souls tend to extend their mental horizon as well. Though there has never been a lack of outspoken criticism in American, this criticism was never taken more seriously than today...
...read by the same correctors my plaint specifically concern French 2. In this course an exercise in idiomatic composition is required once a week. And each week when I am landed back my corrected paper I am forced to concede the justice of about one-third the red ink spilled thereon--but with the other two-thirds I take strenuous issue. Even the class instructor's version often differs with the readers. "Just a difference of opinion between experts," or "Perhaps the reader interpreted the passage in another way--". Perfectly sound explanations, but just where dew that leave my grade...
...manuscript consists of two volumes neatly written in ink, two columns to a page, and bound in old calf. The last part of the second volume contains the translation of certain poems of a Norwegian poet, Christian Tullein, and also of the German poet Gellert. Several of Thorlakason's own poems are included...
...salaries and wages are paid promptly. But all of this will be done in the name of Receivers Franklin and Nicodemus, not in the name of Wabash Railway Co. Instead of "President," Mr. Franklin's office door will be labeled ''Receiver." Many rubber stamps, much red ink scores of reprinted forms will be required for the new regime, but routine will not change much. Chief sufferers under the receivership are the bond holders. If they did not hear the news last week they will when they send in their next coupons and get them back instead...