Word: quilling
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...broad goose quill is the favorite writing implement of Paul von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic. Last week he wielded it for the second time in a twelvemonth to enforce national political unity...
...pocket their Monarchist leanings and definitely acknowledge the validity of the Republic. In one year much has changed. Today, the Nationalists chiefly desire to retain and exploit their position in the cabinet. But the cabinet shakes with conflict of other parties within the coalition. Therefore, again the goose quill...
Foils: Breckinridge (Army) defeated C.B. Hollister '29, 5-4, and D.I. Modell '30, 5-1. M.R. Berliner '28 defeated Breckinridge (Army), 5-4. Brownlee (Army) defeated C.B. Hollister '29, 5-3, and M.R. Berliner '28, 5-4. D.I. Modell '30 defeated Browniee (Army), 5-0. Quill (Army) defeated C.B. Hollister '29, 5-4. M.R. Berliner '28 defeated Quill (Army), 5-3. D.I. Modell '30 defeated Quill (Army...
...ancient with an inventive mind discovered by cutting off the butt end of a feather on a bevel that he had a tube shaped like a reed pen. It also served for writing; it was a quill pen. Who that ancient was no one, of course, knows. However, St. Isidore of Seville, in the early part of the 7th Century, remarked that he was writing his pages with both a kalamos made of a reed and a quill plucked from a bird. Writers used such quills?usually made from the stout wing feathers of the ever-present goose?into...
Steel pens, made to slip into a holder, were a 19th Century development, although some experiments occured before. Scientist Joseph Priestly, in 1780, designed and ordered made a steel pen that resembled a quill, just as anciently the quill imitated the reed. Birmingham, Eng., became the home of the steel pen; it continues so. In the U. S. Camden, N. J., where the Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. was established in 1860, has been the great center...