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...programmer's typed instructions and loading them into the computer's memory. When the disc stops spinning-presto!-an exact replica of the program will be imprinted on the machine's temporary memory, all debugged and ready to deal the cards. Or, depending on the disc, proofread the term paper, balance the books or tell you to sell the hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Write Programs | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

Debbie Solomon, review editor of The Sun, said yesterday Farrell is very articulate and has a national reputation, but "It says something of the state of the English language if the dean of writing doesn't bother to proofread a letter. How do they expect students to treat their own writing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell History Teacher Says Writing Dean Is Incompetent | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

...look at the way students in the course spend their days suggests just how much Venn packs into six weeks. Within seven days students will meet with university press editors, manuscript editors, authors and publishers. They will learn how to copy edit, proofread, do picture research and book design...

Author: By James Cramer and Charles E. Shepard, S | Title: A Walking Tour of the Summer School | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...Stay and proofread it with us:" Said the Managing Editor. "It's going to run blackface, across both the ed columns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Gathers Funds for a New Home | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...very rare: probably about 1,000 copies were printed, and well over 200 are still in existence. Though the original folio copies are the most authentic texts of Shakespeare's works, scores of them differ in innumerable minor ways-they were printed in odd lots and badly proofread. Lately, scholars, equipped with a special electronic device for detecting textual variations, have coordinated all the various versions and now offer what they assert is the clearest and most accurate composite text ever. Presented in facsimile form and substantially bound in leather, the enormous volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Christmas Shelf: Bigness and Beauty | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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