Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farther down the evil-smelling road a fridenly brown-&-white puppy whose master lay under a dead horse, begged us to play with him. We paased on, untied a cavalry horse whose rider lay near by, his legs drawn...
This geometric bogey was raised last week by Connecticut Wesleyan's Librarian Fremont Rider in The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library (Hadham Press, $4.00). But Librarian Rider is not overly alarmed. He thinks the solution is already at hand, in microprint...
Librarian Rider thinks their scheme is already obsolete. For microfilms must be boxed, catalogued and stored like books. Preservation is also a problem: film wears out far faster than paper...
Microprint, in Librarian Rider's opinion, is a better scientific substitute for oldtime methods of scratching the Lord's Prayer on a pinhead. As employed commercially by Manhattan's Readex Microprint Corp., it reduces the ordinary book page to 1/400th of its original size, prints these pages in blocks of one hundred on a 6 in. by 9 in. card. For reading, the card is inserted in a "reflectoscope" which enlarges each microprinted page to 9 in. by 12 inches. Only one page at a time appears in the reader's vision, and a mechanical finder...
...Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws with force. On at least one occasion an "uppity" Negro soldier bus-rider was shot dead...