Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curved stereotype-making machinery for the New York Tribune. Ten years later it built for the same paper a stereotype rotary press which had a run of 18,000 eight-page papers an hour. Four years later it built for James Gordon Bennett's Herald a four-page wide supplement press with a run of 24,000 12-page papers per hour. In 1893 it made the first rotary colored press (for the New York World and Herald) and two years later it made the first octuple (64-page) newspaper press. In 1899 it introduced "Late News" devices; used...
Writer White fished them out, found them amusing enough to save. Publishers Harper & Bros, also found Writer Thurber's hastily scrawled figures amusing, used them to illustrate Is Sex Necessary? Since then the sketchy, slightly neurotic illustrations of Writer Thurber have appeared regularly in The New Yorker, won wide recognition...
James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht on the Hudson...
Technically, the course is practically ideal: besides the midyear and final examinations, there are, during the whole year, three hour exams, and a thesis to be written during the Spring. For almost every assignment there is wide choice of reading and accordingly diversified exam papers...
...offer to the University Debating Council from the National Broadcasting Company, to broadcast a debate with the University of Chicago over a nation-wide hook-up, had to be refused because of the closing of the season...