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Born (1891) in Yorkville (Manhattan's Sudetenland), and raised in Brooklyn, Henry Miller spent his young manhood being an employe of Atlas Portland Cement Co., a theosophist, a tailor's helper (in his father's shop), a mail sorter, a Western Union messenger, a speakeasy operator. In Paris, where he settled in 1930 "to study vice," he worked at panhandling and slept on park benches. He also wrote his best work, a swatch of unabashed autobiographical writings (Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn and others), and several volumes of second-rate philosophy with first-rate titles (What...
...records of one year and preparing the records of the next. Now the same job, with new complications introduced by the advent of V-12 students, is completed in the one week between terms." The day before grades come out, Harvard's 10,000 course cards pass through the sorter in three hours...
There Leonard presides as top-kick over a hierarchy of sorter-outers, and watches over a system whereby study cards are made into course lists...
...third machine, called a sorter, arranges the cards into groups to be fed into the tabulator. If might group together and total all cards filled out by students who concentrate in History, or those of all men who are in Group IV of the Rank List...
...Howdy, Brer Rabbit,' sez Brer Fox, sezee. 'You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin', sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laughed en laughed twel he couldn't laugh...