Word: mimeograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among the things he invented, wholly or partly, were: moving pictures, the phonograph, the carbon telephone transmitter, the microphone, the mimeograph, an alkaline storage battery, the incandescent light (his favorite...
...mimeograph...
...draft of his address for White House approval, the President ordered him to pocket it, cancel the broadcast. Sheepishly Statesman Stimson told newsmen that he had decided to "sleep on it." Into the wastebasket went bales of the never-to-be-delivered Stimson speech just off the State Department mimeograph...
...first we made our newspaper entirely by hand on an old second hand typewriter of our father's. And used carbon paper. But its circulation increased so fast we bought a mimeograph on instalment. It is a $131 machine. But we got it at wholesale. At present we use the typewriter only just to print our stencils...
...Minneapolis (where he had long been police reporter on the Journal) broke and jobless. He borrowed a typewriter and, half for amusement, half with a vague hope of profit, began dashing off "hot" jokes and verses for his Army friends. Popularity was immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang: "Explosion of Pedigreed Bull." With the backing of a small printer, the magazine went like wildfire. Ex-soldiers, salesmen, sporting men, bellhops and curious schoolboys bought Whiz Bang. The price-25?-soon...