Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typewriter was built in China by the Commercial Press, the largest printing establishment in the far East. It is the result of steady improvement since its invention in 1919, though it is not yet entirely efficient. A capable operator can write at the rate of 1000 characters an hour, which seems slow in comparison with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist...
Correspondents with nothing to write about sensationally described as "The Stamp Report" a memorandum in which Sir Josiah Stamp suggested to the Committee that it might be possible to work along the following line: 1) determine how much Germany ought to pay; 2) decide what portion of this amount Germany must pay; 3) investigate and establish the degree of German capacity to pay the rest...
...Shrewd, however, he had saved enough of it to make a fragment for Vanity Fair (March issue). He said he was rewriting the novel entirely: "I missed the architecture the first time and every thing in every art must have architecture. . . . After Aphrodite in Aulis is finished I shall write no more...
...Collaborators. G. B. Shaw's theory is that Chesterton and Belloc are not two persons, but one mythological monster, "the Chesterbelloc," a combative, capering elephant. Both write brilliantly, voluminously?history, biography, fiction, indifferent poetry, essays on religion and ethics, essays on morals and manners; both champion ecclesiasticism, traditionalism, medievalism; both revile socialism, woman's suffrage and G. B. Shaw...
...newsgathering organization with correspondents in all chief U. S. cities to collect and write news items suitable for radio broadcasting, with a nationwide clientele of radio stations (one in each city and two or more in the larger centres), with 20 wavelengths in the short-wave spectrum for its own use, with a network of teletypewriter lines so that its stories would be automatically transmitted ready for use in broadcasting rooms, and with an arrangement for selling radio broadcasting for the stations on a 15 per cent commission-such was the organization visualized last week when a National Radio Press...