Word: typed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Albright: "We don't hit for the literary type of the booklover in spite of all our walnut paneling. There are so few of them we'd starve to death in no time." Albright, known in the trade as the "corn salesman," once heard a bookseller complain to a publisher that nothing was being published for the thinking man. Said Albright: "I told them that the average man . . . couldn't read anything but corn and what we needed was more corn...
...fire at sea, Lagoon beaches two little British tykes, aged seven and eight, on a deserted, gorgeously Technicolored island. Twelve years later, the girl (Jean Simmons) and boy (Donald Houston) are still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...
Depositor. In Great Falls, Mont., hospital attendants, after looking high & low for the rare type of blood needed to give Jacob Dirkes an emergency transfusion, found that the only pint available was the one that Dirkes had donated a few days before...
Computations of the machine are checked at several points for possible errors. During the mathematical operations in the arithmetic section of Mark III, answers are double-checked at every stage in the problem before going on to the next stage. To insure that the final typed results are correct, all numbers are recorded twice on the magnetic tape by two parallel and independent systems. Unless both numbers on the tape are identical, the striking action of the type bars sets off an alarm and stops the typewriters...
...eliminate errors that might creep into answer sheets during type-setting and printing of permanent records, the results are printed directly to pages which can be photographed and printed by offset lithography for publication by the University Press...