Word: resets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make-work requirement in many newspaper contracts with printers. Advertisements which are set up outside a newspaper and plates or mats of them sent in must be reset in the newspaper composing room. The duplicated type, unused, is then thrown into the "hell box." The I.T.U. contends that this useless make-work is the only way it can assure jobs for all its members...
...Eternal Return (Paulve; Discina). The medieval bards sang of Tristan and Iseult as huge, cloudy symbols of high romance; later storytellers (Swinburne, Wagner, Tennyson, E. A. Robinson et al.) further enriched (or corrupted) the tale with new ideas and idioms. Now the French poet-moviemaker, Jean Cocteau, has handsomely reset the legend in modern dress. His title, The Eternal Return, is the term Nietzsche gave to the mournfully romantic doctrine of endless historical repetition. The Nietzschean note tolls through the film like a sunken bell...
...Monte Carlo veterans still reminisce about a legendary mechanic known as "Jaggers the Yorkshireman," who charted the weaknesses of the Casino's wheels, reportedly cleaned up $500,000 before the operators reset the wheels...
...aren't the only ones who compete with stitches in them." says Cox, "but the whole thing is pretty ugly business and we don't like to talk much about it. From the medical angle, it isn't too dangerous to play with a stitched-up cut or a reset nose. It's the internal injuries you've got to watch." Unlike most "game" bags, the Varsity sachel bulges with an unfeathered assortment of 34-odd items ranging from salt pills and scissors to talcum powder and tongue depressors...
Wrote William Barkley, London Daily Express columnist, last week: "The favorite roosting perch of the visiting sailors ... is Piccadilly's statue of Eros (TIME, July 7), reset up just in time for this naval occasion. Happy, contented, their jaws working overtime, there they sit, apparently hypnotized by London's traffic swirling about them. Quick census ... at 3:30 yesterday: 37 sailors. There were a few girls too-about...