Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case to print such an advertisement on the same page with your summary of the news of the day regarding religion? (TIME, April...
...pigeon who, barren herself, kissed the Doctor's hand when he gave her fertile eggs to sit on; the extraordinary story of Joe the gardener working himself into cancer growing flowers and turning stones to bread: such things Author Eckstein depicts with the intense exclusiveness of a Japanese print. The reader, with the Doctor, will wonder what lies beyond his pictures' boundaries -it must be a dazzling landscape in which such sparkling details live...
Soviet papers print no news of births, marriages or deaths-except on rare occasions when an illustrious Comrade dies. Last week all Moscow flew the Soviet mourning flag (red with a black border) and even Dictator Stalin turned out for the funeral of Professor Michael Nikolaivitch Pokrovsky...
This scene occurred in 1931. Kreuger, failing to get a match monopoly in Italy, needed funds. From an Italian engraver he got copper plates that bore the likeness of an Italian Government bond. On a piece of paper he sketched the way he would like an English-worded statement printed. He furtively took the plates to a Stockholm printer. The printer, knowing Kreuger's affairs were vast, did not become suspicious when he was asked to print 42 bonds, each of ?500,000 denomination. Kreuger took the counterfeits, forged on them the name of E. Drelli, gave them...
...work of many days and many men before the new type was fashioned and set up on the printing board, to spell out the fable of Hero and Leander, salvaged by the keepers of the shop from the attic of a monastery. And there is no one today who can measure the sense of high adventure with which the Venetian scholars and printers saw the heavy paper take the delicate print of the metal, the Greek myth rescued and restored by the ingenuity of the early Renaissance...