Word: inks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Membership tickets in the Co-operative Society for the next half year are tastefully printed in crimson ink, in a smaller size than last year's tickets...
...volume, at various places, comments of which the following are specimens: "Good, very good!" "Oh, of course," "A good one," "Right you are," "A trifle exaggerated, friend," "How astonishing," etc., etc, Moreover, this patriotic person has taken pains to prevent his comments from being erased, by writing them in ink. This sort of thing is to be expected in the books of a public library, used by a miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student was the guilty person-should not know better than...
...light, small types German text, light shining directly on the face, and the bad position of desks, have all had their supporters. Doubtless all of these may add to the trouble, but the chief cause is not among them. It is the color of the paper and the ink which we use. No one dissents from the opinion of Lord Bacon that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black. But, despite these indications of nature and philosophy, we have all our reading matter in direct opposition to the suggestions of optical...
...remedy to the chief cause, the white paper and its contrasting black ink, Mr. Yorke suggests the use of green paper and colored inks. Nature and science declare that it should be green. It is the commonest color in nature and the most refreshing. It has an infinite variety of shades, and it is the softest color. It is the most permanently grateful, fatigues the eyes least, and is the color on which they will the longest and most willingly repose. Then, why should we not reform the abuse as the means lie so completely in our power...
...ink sketch by Haig of Darwin's Study at Down House, Kent, has been placed in the library...