Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month President's Message No. 51 laid facts & figures before L. & N. employes to dramatize Jim Hill's constant plea for small savings. To get the money to buy one lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...
Died. Valentin ("Wonder Doctor") Zeileis, 65, world-publicized German healer, who treated thousands of ailing men and women by stroking them with an ''electric pencil" (a simple, high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery); of a laboratory injury; in Gallspach, Germany...
...usually has a luncheon date, to make a speech, receive a medal or talk politics with somebody. After lunch she reads some more, paces around her apartment, with a pencil and a pad of yellow paper in her hand, and generally gets curious about something and starts telephoning people. She runs up tremendous telephone bills calling Washington and London. At teatime people start dropping in: friends, ex perts and refugees. She almost always goes out to dinner, or has a flock of people to her apartment. She seldom talks anything but world affairs and seldom stops talking them. Her husband...
...deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...
Into eight conference rooms at Littauer Center on one of the first days of spring crowded some ten score students. Pads and pencil, which armed every pretty maiden and a few others, who were not so pretty as their painted political ideas, dispelled all conservative fears that a contest of postoffice or "goldfish gobbling" was about to begin. For almost six hours, Littauer was converted into a gigantic safety valve for youth and all its fears and ideas. Smoke-filled rooms, hushed giggles, and overflowing ash trays gave signs through the night that the conference was still there...