Word: styluses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stylus with a point of silver that flakes off on paper specially treated with a mixture of bone and glue...
...Toast, No Butter. Now and then, of course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they...
Ultimate Compliment. Fitting smoothly into first grade at Garden Hills school, which has eleven other blind students, Pamela found few differences. A hand-picked "resource teacher" taught her to read Braille and use a Braille writer-a six-key device that works like an oldtime stylus and slate. The blind students carry the writers to class, take tests with them, even do long-division problems with them...