Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons Cinemactress Helen Vinson gave last December for suing Fred Perry for divorce was his insisting that she sit through all his tennis matches. Last week, after Tennist Perry had been trounced three times in a row by Donald Budge on their first joint professional tour, Miss Vinson withdrew suit, rejoined her husband...
There's one I know in Bedford Row...
...Chicago, last week told where he was on the night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present. The perpetrator was not discovered...
...that the old keyboard needed reforming when he found that high-school typists often misspelled easy words (such as "on," "which") because they had to make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
...vowels and punctuation marks are struck by the left hand, the most frequently used consonants by the right. Thus no word or syllable can be written by the right hand alone, very few by the left alone. Moreover, 70% of a typist's strokes are on the home row. Dr. Dvorak claims that university students can attain 50 words a minute in one semester on his keyboard (months sooner than on the standard keyboard), that misspellings decrease. Last week the Chicago results gave him new hope...