Word: penning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graton wanted to see how temperatures changed at various depths as the geyser went off. But once his experimenting brought up more than a handful of pen-line graphs...
Working in an abandoned garage, Leet has developed a new labor-saving seismograph, which frees geologists from darkrooms and sub-cellar laboratories. Old seismographs recorded on photographic plates; the new one relays earth tremors to a pen-and-paper graph on Leet's desk...
...works show three techniques: charcoal and stump, pen and ink, and pencil and crayon. The set illustrates his development from 1924 until...
...government palace which the 16th Century Spaniards intended to be a fort. "La Fortaleza," he says, "is beautiful, but it's not really a place to live or work in. It's for an old Spanish governor, writing a letter to the king-with a quill pen." He prefers Jajome, the Governor's summer residence in the hills north of Ponce, or his own rented ($52 a month) cottage at Sabana liana, twelve miles outside San Juan...
...student deserves. Conscientiousness will never eliminate all injustices; it might not even insure against such grotesqueries as the recent C--plus case. But it will at least cut down injustices. And it will cut down the percentage of those who successfully slide through Harvard on the assumption that the pen is mightier than the book...