Word: pencilling
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...high school, he spent some 15 years picking up mechanical know-how in machine shops. He finally landed in the Mare Island Yard as a welder. There he fell afoul of a problem that had puzzled the best welding minds for 20 years: the problem of conveniently welding short, pencil-like pieces of metal to perpendicular or overhead surfaces...
...fact, a pencil has dotted every one of the 30,000-odd words in every one of TIME'S weekly issues for more than 20 years now-and every dot means that a trained researcher (TIME now has 43) has checked the word for accuracy...
Never Mind. In Boise, Idaho, Police Chief R. G. Haskin caught up with a motorist, whipped out his pencil and book, asked him his name, learned it was Aloises Zachary Abernathy Mefgenthenwallerberry, let him off with a little lecture...
...TIME'S apologies to wrongly identified Alaska Scouts Thompson and Seaton, a pencil and notebook to the misinforming photographer...
...observer sketches with a black pencil on a map printed in red. The transmitter, which is insensitive to red, sends only the black marks; consequently, if an enemy receiver intercepts the message, it shows only meaningless scrawls. But at headquarters the message is decoded by placing the transmitted sketch over a map duplicating the observer...