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...opportunity for club members to release aggression, but mostly to just “confuse the tourists.” In addition to plastic swords and scythes, the faux assassins also used pencils. “We were told that senators did actually stab him with their styli,” Miller explained. Miller, who portrayed Caesar, said excitedly before the event, “I’ve never been killed before.” Geselowitz was proud to be the only attendee. “I feel like it’s a position of honor...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Beware The Ides of March’ | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

...form the characters. An 18-ft.-long monster, it looks like a cross between a filing cabinet and a press, eats up a continuous sheet of electrosensitive paper at a speed of 483 ft. per minute. The paper is drawn under a stationary set of 600 tiny needles-or styli-that are arranged in a 10-in. row. The computer standing near by sends electronic impulses to various styli, which then swiftly "burn" the characters into the sensitive paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Untying the Tongue | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

Richmond, Va. ¶ In short, as many another radio man has urged, it is high time that record cutters and reproducers got together and standardized their grooves and styli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...voice, that the recording is tinny and distorted. That's nonsense. Bing sings about as well as he ever did, and the recording is all right. It's the stations that play it wrong. The grooves in a record are cut at varying angles and depths with styli of varying sizes. Records have to be played back with corresponding needles set for corresponding angles and sizes to fit the grooves. Until radio stations learn that, these big, nighttime transcribed shows are going to flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perfectionist | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Nune valete, quoniam odimus scribere in Latino, id est ita fatigans. Habemus quoque premens engagementum cras ad Nevem Emporium, antiquam urbem Romanorum prope hoc. Sed cogitavimus ut debemus ostentare ad vos quomodo faciliter possumus exsecare nostrum Publicnm Oratorem, qui non cogi???a parva tubera sui styli Latini. Nostri respectus ad LOWELLUM qui est unum de nosfris D.C.L's, et circa optimum, ut credimus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An International Episode. | 12/21/1886 | See Source »

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