Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's finest collections of keyboard music, especially of organ music, has been assembled by Harvard University in a new Isham Memorial Library of Organ Music in the Memorial Church, the University announced today. The Library will be dedicated as part of the ceremonies of Commencement Day, June...
Since his retirement Newspaperman Pegler has been living in Madison, Conn, and writing (on a double-keyboard Smith-Premier typewriter he acquired in 1893) a book of reminiscences tentatively entitled 50,000 Deadlines. His language, both written and spoken, reveals the origin of his son Westbrook's self-consciously polysyllabic style. Arthur Pegler finds people parsimonious instead of stingy, takes a libation in preference to a drink. He speaks of a publisher he once worked for as "that ineffable screw...
...University's demonstration elementary school, pupils are taught typewriting from grades five to eight as a means of improving their English, spelling and com position. Teachers announced that children learned typing twice as fast on the Dvorak keyboard, were able to exceed 50 correct words a minute (par for professional: 70 words...
...Dvorak concluded that the old keyboard needed reforming when he found that high-school typists often misspelled easy words (such as "on," "which") because they had to make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
...simplified Dvorak keyboard, all the vowels and punctuation marks are struck by the left hand, the most frequently used consonants by the right. Thus no word or syllable can be written by the right hand alone, very few by the left alone. Moreover, 70% of a typist's strokes are on the home row. Dr. Dvorak claims that university students can attain 50 words a minute in one semester on his keyboard (months sooner than on the standard keyboard), that misspellings decrease. Last week the Chicago results gave him new hope...