Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surely speaking in error. I do not know a single leader in the field of religion who does not stand ready to meet science more than half way and to stretch out a hand for any olive branch that may be extended. I am not acquainted with the type of religious dogmatist to whom, according to The World, "there is no middle ground." So far as I am concerned personally--and I think my viewpoint is fairly representative of other religious leaders--I am not now, and never have been, unfriendly to science, as far as my specializing...
...examination of the figures shows the following types of cases treated with the number in each type: leg injuries 29, back and neck strains 13, arm injuries 12, massage 6, foot injuries 4, and abdominal injuries...
Taking an apparently uninteresting subject, Mr. Dwiggins showed his audience that typography is one of the fine arts, full of interest and possibilities for personal talents. Besides discussing the technical side of type, he also entered into the human side of the question, showing how the shapes of letters in type originated from the various ways in which the pen was held and the way the styles of type have changed in accordance to the tastes of the time...
...tools of the typographer, according to Mr. Dwiggins, are simplicity, the choice of a legible and artistic style of type, and the centering of the whole around a certain point...
...keynote of Mr. Dwiggins' talk was struck in the first lecture of the series by Mr. R. S. Durstine, who stated that one of the most undeveloped fields for newcomers in the advertising business is that of the proper use of type. The strength of the most convincing and persuasive advertising message may be entirely destroyed by unwise typography, he said, and it is of the utmost importance to the success of an advertisement that it be made readable...