Word: postcarder
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...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...
...priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power, dead of phthisis some 60 years ago, lately reputed to possess great healing powers (TIME. Nov. 25 et seq.). Private prayer and meditation in the cemetery were impossible: the place was a bedlam of the faithful, the curious, the peanut-and-postcard-selling. At length William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, ordered the hordes away, the gates locked while the Church pondered the phenomena and decided whether or not God's hand was really manifest...