Word: longhanding
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...relieved of having to do their figuring on paper; will they eventually forget how to do it, just as urban man has lost so many crafts of survival? Possibly. But the steam engine did not destroy men's muscles, and the typewriter has not ruined the ability to write longhand...
...volume represents only a fragment of the articles that Darwin wrote in his cramped, feverish longhand over a 46 year span and had dispatched by telegraph to London, at the night rate of eighty shillings a word. When Darwin was abroad, luxury liners like the Baltic and the Lusitania ploughed the seas carrying his copy in stow...
...days after his surprise departure from No. 10 Downing Street last April, Harold Wilson started writing a longhand manuscript on the British prime ministry. This week his thin (207 pages) but thoughtful volume, entitled The Governance of Britain, will be published in London; it is scheduled for publication in the U.S. next spring. The book demonstrates, in many ways, the caution that marked Wilson's tenure. It offers no explanation, for example, for his abrupt retirement, and the chapter on national security is only one page, ending with the words: "There is no further information that can usefully...
Frequent Forays. The prime offender, however, is seen to be Justice Blackmun, a slow writer and ponderous thinker, who not only weighs his opinions meticulously but writes them out in longhand. An extremely effective and popular public speaker, Blackmun has made frequent forays on the creamed chicken circuit all over the country this spring. Before tackling the court's work this week, he was off to Emory University in Georgia to accept yet another honorary degree. While the six other full-term Justices on the court have each published between ten and 13 majority opinions, Marshall has announced only...
...mental block. Picking up a stack of grocery bags, he completed the necessary calculations easily in his traditional way--on rough brown paper with a pencil stub. The same psychological process may be manifest in author-lawyer Louis Auchincloss, who finds he can only write novels in longhand or familiar yellow legal pads...