Word: postcard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated: "At Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a post card, claimed a world's record." Dr. John J. Taylor, Streator, 111. (this cover- to-cover reader's Grandaddy) in 1893, before 30 prominent Streatorites, wrote on a postcard 14,564 words. The subject: i Kings, 13th Chapter containing 1,142 words. This written twelve times with 860 additional words on one side of a regulation U. S. postcard with the naked eye. With either Dr. John J. or Senor Erasto to pen it-what big-shooting, Hoovering, tycooning, picturing...
...Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a postcard, claimed a world's record...
...taking pictures through an inverted microscope onto a film coated with the Goldberg emulsion it is claimed that 100 novels could be printed on one postcard and a man could carry his library in his billfold. A spy could carry a photograph of a campaign map on a piece of paper no bigger than a beauty spot...
...metallic glare over a baseball field under a pitchblack sky and the Cincinnati "Reds" played an exhibition game with the Indianapolis "Indians." It was the first night game ever played by a major league team. The lights turned the field to a vividly unreal color, like grass in a postcard, against which the figures of the players stood out sharply three-dimensional. Both teams were hitting well but the red-legged fielders were uncertain judging distances and fumbled. In the fourth Bob Meusel struck out with the bases full. Cincinnati was leading in the last half of the seventh when...
Additional names may be added to the list by petition. Petitions are to be signed by 25 members of the nominee's class and must be delivered to 7 Strauss Hall by 6 o'clock Monday. Postcard ballots will be sent out on Tuesday...