Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the reports, all the type was either melted or strewn about the ruins of the gutted building. This type, which represented the entire publication, had been completely proof-read and was all ready to be locked in the forms when the fire occurred. The Van Dyke Company is completely disrupted and is doing no work at all. The Yale Daily News, formerly published in the Van Dyke plant, is now being printed in another shop...
...enforcement, he said. "I speak only the truth when I say that the people of any locality get the degree of law enforcement upon which they insist and for which they are willing to pay. . . ." He said he was and would be willing to "remove from office upon proper proof being presented, any public official charged with laxity in enforcement of the law." But he repeated: "Law enforcement must of necessity begin with arrest. Too many misinformed people look for detailed enforcement from the head rather than from the root of police power...
Taras Bulba is a striking proof that in Poland, at least, the manufacture of motion pictures is an infant industry. It contains, however, some good specimens of the medieval Cossacks...
From this house will each day issue the myriad copies of Hearst's New York Journal (evening) and American (morning). It is alive with rollers, chutes, conveyors to carry copy, proof, type to contact points in the process of rushing news to newsboy. In the "fudge" room stand three linotype machines next to telegraph instruments where telegraphic flashes tell sudden death, discovery, disaster. From the machines, conveyors carry the type galley directly to the presses. News, newspapers think, should be gobbled hot. The American and Journal have every known device to sell it smoking...
Observers saw in this candid, concise, lucid statement one more proof that Count Volpi epitomizes the best type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace...