Word: matrixes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he wrote, Professor Broom had made no attempt to free the fossil from its rocky matrix, as the bones were brittle to the point of crumbling. When they are finally freed, complete scientific scrutiny may establish the right of Australopithecus to a place in man's evolutionary prolog. Meanwhile, says Dr. Broom, the discovery shows that "we had in South Africa in Pleistocene times large non-forest living anthropoids-not very closely allied to either the chimpanzee or the gorilla but showing a number of typical human characteristics not met with in any of the living anthropoids...
Clephane's group had been trying to cast type from papier-mâché matrices indented by mechanically assembled characters. First big improvement suggested by Mergenthaler was to cast the type directly from an indented, metal matrix. Then, in an inspired moment, Mergenthaler conceived the idea of a freely circulating matrix which was brought into line to cast its character, returned to a magazine until needed again. To make the lines "justify" (i.e., come out even), wedge-shaped spaces were spread between the words...
...Wyoming's Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he tossed it aside. On second thought he picked it up again, handed it to Expedition Leader Glenn Lowell Jepsen. Red-laired, laconic Paleontologist Jepsen recognized at a glance that the fossil might be important. He cut the sandstone into three pieces, sent them to a skilled preparator named Albert Thomson...
...matrix department of a type- setting machine there are only one-half as many matrices (type molds) for zeros as there are for the letter "e." Ordinarily that supply is ample for run-of-mill newspaper copy. But since the New Deal, newspaper copy has been anything but ordinary. It deals glibly in millions, billions of Federal appropriations, relief expenditures, debts, tax receipts, budget estimates. A dozen lines of a Washington dispatch may contain close to 100 ciphers...
Frederic William Goudy was 60 before he cut his first matrix. But he had devoted most of those 60 years to poring over serifs and logotypes, had already begun to build his reputation as the world's most prolific designer of type (TIME, Nov. 6). Last week, at 70, Fred Goudy had designed his 92nd type face. To celebrate the event Manhattan's National Arts Club gave a reception in his honor, exhibited such typographical curiosities as a leaf from a Gutenberg Bible, an old hat belonging to Mr. Goudy, a gold matrix of a swash "G."* Spectators...