Word: resetted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that we have to send the copy over until it is intelligible. If that isn't irritating enough, nature sometimes steps in with a sterner warning-like the lightning bolt that struck the Philadelphia plant one Monday (deadline) night, knocking out the power supply. Type had to be reset in another plant, and teletypesetters worked round the clock. Chances are that your copy of TIME was late that week...
News stories had to be specially reset, and cartoons redrawn with simpler lines, for the Colonel's one-copy edition. Just how much all this cost, no Tribman would say. It took 28 minutes to broadcast the first issue (four pages, about the size of a lady's handkerchief) 29 miles to the Colonel's home. The Colonel liked it so well that he ordered a new facsimile machine which will reproduce a page about three times as fast...
...stories under different pseudonyms. In his most productive years Faust averaged two million words a year-at the pulp magazines' top rate of 4? a word. He once wrote Hollywood an Alaska story, but the studio needed a sarong scenario. Faust was back in five days, his story reset in the South Seas...
...Once again I rearranged the teeth in wax and made my patient play. I soon discovered that the tip of the tongue had too much room between the occlusion of the front upper and lower. . . . To correct this condition, I reset the front teeth several times. . . . For the final test he tried the famous William Tell duet full of staccatos and he passed with colors flying...
Artillerymen cleaned and reset their pieces, stacked ammunition in orderly piles. Their infantry comrades of the 1st Defense Battalion, U.S.M.C., worked at their rifles, dug entrenchments for the last stand, squinted critically at bright bayonets. The remainder of 1,000 A.F. of L. workmen who had been at work on the island deepened air-raid shelters, helped out Marines at their tasks. On the airdrome, mechanics and officers of the Marine's air squadron, VMF-211, patched up new planes from the tangled junk of their original twelve, now broken and burned by Jap bombs...