Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those words Mr. Littel denounces: perpetual repetition has entitled them to at least a temporary retreat, in fact has made their public appearance obnoxious--as obnoxious--as innocent words can be. Then there is another type, 'elusive charm', 'clashes of beauty', 'sharply silhouetted',--ad nauseam. But what, as Mr. Littel asks, is to be done? One must use words and phrases to "fill in" especially when one has little to say, And these old companions are "so often found at one's elbow when in a hurry or a tight place"; they are words which have niches and occasions rather...
...very much interested in your article [TIME, Oct. 18] concerning the experiments using ultraviolet transmitting glass conducted in English public schools. The laboratories of Corning Glass Works have recently announced the development of a glass of this type possessing qualities of ultraviolet transmission comparing favorably with fused quartz...
Prisoner Debs read it slowly, eagerly, ravenously. The book was Karl Marx's Das Kapital. In the brain of Prisoner Debs there began to simmer a more militant type of Socialism for the U. S. than the mere reading of Utopian books...
...Surely I don't want to marry anyone in my own profession. . . . A fine type of businessman, or perhaps a great publisher or lawyer would do. It is time I married if I want to have a home or children. A woman must marry before 30 and 30 comes quickly...
...insistently needs tin for bronzes, solders, collapsible tubes, pewter, babbitt and other bearing metals, type and brittania metals, tin foil for wrappings, soda fountain and chemical laboratory pipes, cans and boxes, white enamel, making silks heavy, mordants in dyeing textiles and printing calicoes. For these uses, this country last year imported 50% (76,646 long tons, value $95,121,000) of the total world supply of tin. This was an increase of nearly 20% over 1924 imports, whereas the world supply increased only 2% over that of 1924. On Dec. 31, 1925, there were only 2,654 tons...