Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Julieann had been away from home only a few hours when, at night in a driving rainstorm, she jumped out of her pen and over perhaps a dozen fences, crossed swamps and pastures and even swam across the Econlockhatchee River. Last Monday at dusk, 100 Ibs. lighter, she arrived back at Kraftsow's. "An incredible journey," says Kraftsow...
...predominant handwriting styles of the Italian Renaissance. It was developed by Ludovico degli Arrighi, a Vatican chancery scribe, who in 1522 composed the first writing manual for popular use, La Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create an even rhythm and beautiful form...
With their new promotions, Hertz, Avis and National are reluctantly resorting to a tactic pioneered by Budget Rent a Car, the scrappy No. 4 company that has been chipping away at the dominance of the big three. Since 1978, Budget has handed out such premiums as calculators and pen-and-pencil sets. The giveaways and price discounting helped Budget boost its share of the market from about 7% in 1976 to 16% last year, close behind the 17% held by National...
Last fall, when a swastika was etched with a pen into the JLSA bulletin board, Dean of Students Mary D. Upton put notices in Law School publications deploring the action, and threatening disciplinary action against those found responsible...
...years old, in a plaid button down shirt and brown pants going through his desk. The man fled through the door. The police found on the student's desk a red Harvard notebook that had been stolen from the common room of Grays Yall earlier that evening. A gold pen and a gold watch were also stolen form the common room that night...