Word: printer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday's dawn had not yet hit the hills of Hanover when a band of intruders of unmistakable crimson hue were trying to proposition "The Dartmouth's" late-working printer. Negotiations were soon interrupted by he appearance of the paper's imperturbable business manager, who thought nothing the print shop, and proceeded to peruse "the" morning editions...
...none at the Club Thursday. Simple planning would have made it possible for inter-House guests to vote. And to eliminate the advantages gained by certain candidates through alphabetical position on the ballot, the Council would merely have had to restore the old device, comprehensible to even the novice printer, of dividing top-of-the-list honors by rotating the names...
...them altogether, deployed from the Mail Room to the Morgue, performing the time-honored function of office boys & girls everywhere. For us, they carry countless "takes" of editorial copy, distribute some 1,500 newspapers, hundreds of telegrams and messages every day; lug advertising plates to the printer, contracts to the lawyer, pick up photographs at the Customs House, turn on the air conditioning, sharpen pencils, turn off the air conditioning, ad infinitum. One office boy does nothing but track down lost people (somebody's office in TIME gets moved every...
...interesting gadget now being installed in communications companies' offices the world over is the automatic teletype printer-a kind of typewriter-substitute for the time-honored telegrapher's key. You can type out a message on the keyboard, have it automatically transmitted overseas by radio or cable circuits to come out in print on a teletype at the other...
...just as an irate printer was about to destroy the plates for nonpayment of a bill, Sears, Roebuck & Co. stepped in and bought the bankrupt Encyclopaedia Britannica* Three years ago Sears decided that the publication of an encyclopedia was "foreign" to its merchandising business, made an outright gift of the venture to the University of Chicago. Last week Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that it was time to make better use of Britannica and its film and publishing subsidiaries in his favorite crusade: adult education. He turned over the university to President Ernest C. Colwell for nine...