Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victorian prejudice, against novels which mildly inclined toward Jefferson's view that the result of reading them is "a bloated imagination, sickly judgment and disgust toward all the real business of life" has largely passed away; and the point has been reached where this type of literature forms a convenient and popular vehicle for the conveying of science, history, and religion to the masses. The habit of disapproval is too deeply ingrained, however, to allow the novel to escape scot-free; and it is this very subservience to science that arouses modern criticism. Speaking at St. Mark...
...every reason to believe that in normal times the continental scholar was, on the whole, quite as dilatory, as indisposed to hard work, as his American counterpart. Where there were lean and hungry students there, working overtime to gain a higher education, there were also men of the same type here. But whereas conditions in the United States have been what is considered "normal" for a long time, and at present seem inclined to remain so, political and social, not to mention economic conditions in Europe have been in more or less continued turmoil. And where there is change, there...
Hence it was that at its annual meeting a President of the U. S. came to speak. Hence it was the proper body to take charge of and preserve the last stick of type set by Warren G. Harding. This type was set by the late President in the composing room of The Fairbanks News Miner-Citizen on his trip to Alaska last summer. The publisher sent the type south and it was presented to the Associated Press by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace...
...that some prominent citizen is an honest, faithful patriot, no printing press is so mean as to condescend to print it. But should I call a train robber to testify to hearsay that robs a dead man of his honor old Gutenberg immediately hands me his largest, blackest headline type...
...Should we preach that we cannot eat our cake and have it too, no man may listen and no type repeats. But should we pretend to want tax reduction and at the same time advocate the bonus, the increase of pensions, the German relief appropriation, the rise of Government salaries and the $100,000,000 grant to the wheat farmer, the printed word takes up the refrain at once and the impossible seems possible because it is printed...