Word: prints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wandering in & out of bars, dance halls, brothels, sketching satchel-eyed lechers in boiled shirts and top hats, provocative cocottes in billowing pantalettes and immense bonnets. On his advertisements for nightclubs, books, magazines and plays, Lautrec had portrayed his disreputable and talented cronies with the subtlety of a Japanese print backed by the dash and action of a circus broadside...
Even the best translation, John Ormsby's version of 1885, is stiff, and the Peter Motteux translation of 1700, the only one in U.S. print for more than a decade, has been called "worse than worthless." What Sainte-Beuve called "the Bible of humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original...
...small print at the bottom of the bill explains it all: "deprived of the privileges of the University . . . reinstatement is obtained by consent of the Dean . . . fine of $10,00 for late payment...
When the morning service was over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...
...Mark III solves problems, the answers are recorded on another magnetic tape similar to the one on which the information was put into the machine. A magnetic tape is used because Mark III turns out answers faster than a typewriter can print them. To overcome this difficulty, the tape is then fed to a tape reader which relays the answers to a battery of five typewriters...