Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electric vibrating pencil eraser...
...from now on, selling the pens may not be so freehanded. Penman Reynolds wrote his own ticket by tapping the rich postwar market first. Next month he will run into his first stiff competition. Eversharp and Eberhard Faber, who do 10-15% of the U.S. pen-&-pencil business, will put on sale their own ball-point...
Gold basketballs were awarded to the seven members of the team who played against Yale, while Wyndol Gray and Saul Mariaschin received silver basketballs for having been named to the all-New England squad. Coach Floyd Stahl was presented with a pen-and-pencil set by the team, and Gray received a civilian shirt-and-tie outfit...
Someone once compared Critic John Forster to a pencil stub-"short, thick, and full of lead." In writing his classic Life of Charles Dickens, Forster presented the public with only the best of the man who was his best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
...Corporal is a graceful, pencil-slim, 1,000-pound rocket, 16 feet long and 12 inches in diameter. Booted along at supersonic speeds by the combustion of liquid hydrocarbon, she aims to search out secrets of the ionosphere (super-stratosphere). The Army announced last fortnight that, on her first try, the Corporal rose 43½ miles into the blue, came down by parachute...