Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at photocopies of a few of the diary excerpts and pronounced them too consistent and too smooth to be credible. "Hitler's handwriting was full of power and force," he said. "It was tormented, impetuous, so that when he wanted to make a point, he would dig his pen into the paper and spread the ink, and when he gets to the end of a sentence, it always falls." Hamilton did not find that falling pattern in the diary...
...type of pen wielded by a forger can be a giveaway. The quaint quill was used exclusively until 1780, when its successor, the steel pen, came into existence. The difference in writing between the two can be seen under a microscope. Fiber-tipped pens were not used extensively in the U.S. until 1964. Any forger using a pen not common in the period his document purports to derive from risks quick discovery. The modern proliferation of pens, particularly ballpoints, complicates the task of current document analysts, but can provide fresh clues. A ballpoint requires the writer to exert more pressure...
...Collins Sons deposited $120,000 in a West German bank for the privilege of examining a twelve-page extract from the typewritten documents, which bore a signature that was allegedly Canaris'. When tested by a London laboratory, the signature proved to have been written with a ball point pen, an instrument that came into use in Germany after Canaris was executed on Hitler's orders...
...taken up the pen to reaffirm his commitment to at least one of those issues: in the spring 1983 edition of the Human Life Review, an eight-year-old conservative quarterly, Reagan's byline appears over a rambling but passionate pro-life article called "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation...
...Kinsley said yesterday the chance to pen TRB was "an opportunity that comes once every 40 years...