Word: machinistic
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Fifty years ago last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched...
...Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled the man out of the cab, tied a rope around his waist, lowered him head first to an ambulance which rushed him to a hospital for possible recovery...
Unconditional Evil was Gerald Thompson, 26, machinist, who noted in his diary some 83 women he had tried to seduce. To Peoria's pride, 67 of his attempts were unsuccessful. He had come along in his car in the rain, given Miss Hallmark a lift, liked her so well he choked her unconscious, hit her on the jaw and threw her into the ditch. The Press at first rated him "handsome, curly-haired, muscular." Then it came out that on his night-prowlings he carried scissors to snip women's underclothes, had made a New Year...
...Milton Machinist '37, Kenneth MacLeish '38, Adolf W. Marburg '37, Henry O. Marcy '37, Richard B. Mather 1G., Daniel W. Meyer '36, Gardner Middlebrook '38, Frederick Miller '37, James L. Morrison '38, John K. Moulton '36, Constantine G. Orfanos 1G., Oglesby Paul '38, John W. Perry '37, Thomas Perry, Jr. '36, Marcy S. Powell 1G., Edward H. Porter '38, David R. Lit '38, M. Victor Leventritt...
Mesta's head is Lorenz Iversen, one of the ablest steel machinery engineers in the U. S. A Danish farm boy turned machinist, he went to sea for two years before migrating to the U. S. After working in a New Jersey shop, he went to Germany for further technical training, returning to a job in Mesta's drafting room...