Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desired type size and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
...advertising revenue. It was too soon to tell which papers would survive. But one small democratic newspaper, Straubing's Niederbayrische Nachrichten, had already succumbed; it was driven out by the Straubinger Tage blatt, revived by Dr. Georg Huber, who had published it under the Nazis. Hard hit by six new competitors, another licensed paper had dropped 9,000 readers. New Score. Military Government offi cials hoped that the democratic press could weather the economic war, but the battles would be bitter. The nationalists had banded together into a new press association and raised a war chest, to wage...
...Roman Catholics under Bishop O'Hara's jurisdiction have good cause to be grateful to him. In the ten years since his arrival, the diocese had built or bought 42 churches, 31 rectories, 24 colleges, high schools and grade schools, 14 convents, eight social centers, six hospitals and 25 other structures...
...good many of the 84, they found, had apparently decided early about their future. One out of four had majored in education at college. The next largest number had specialized in social or physical sciences; only six had picked the humanities ; of the whole group only half had taken a Ph.D...
...average president, conclude the Perkinses, has taught about eight years, been an administrator for another eight, became a president at 45, has now been in office about six years. There was not a woman...