Word: tape
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teletypesetter, developed by Publisher Gannett and already demonstrated successfully, is expected to be in use in many a metropolitan daily's plant within a year. This machine, by means of perforated tape, sets type by telegraph...
...games, however, he will have completed his examinations, and in addition, several days in which to get back into condition. Several track authorities picked Reid to win the race last Saturday, and Coach E. L. Farrell declared last evening that Lermond will have a hard battle to break the tape ahead of the star Crimson miler in the race this week...
...from the summer capital at Petropolis in time to dash up to the gangplank amid a fanfare of trumpets. Also present were Vice President Mello Vianna and many a Senator and Deputy. Bright-uniformed guards lined the Avenida Rio Branco up which the procession passed. Confetti and ticker-tape snowed down à la the U. S. The crowd was estimated at the conventional...
Inertia, self-interest and red tape have for years blockaded every effort to reapportion the seats in the House of Representatives, as required by the Constitution, in conformity with the present-day population of the U. S. House seats are still held on the basis of the 1910 Census. When the House met this month, it was announced that a bloc of 100 members would, if necessary, filibuster to put through some Reapportionment bill, presumably the long-shelved measure written by Chairman E. Hart Fenn (Connecticut) of the Census Committee to reapportion on the basis of the 1930 census (TIME...
...plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made short shrift by changing his signature to U. S. Grant...