Word: photostats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some such score. On Tuesday a phone call was put through to the Library of Congress in Washington. Music Librarian Harold Spivacke burrowed all day, late at night emerged in dusty triumph with a lithograph of the score (purchased for the Library by Carl Engel in 1922). On Wednesday photostat copies were hurriedly made and airmailed to Mr. Toscanini. On Thursday NBC copyists frantically scribbled scripts for the 105 men in the NBC orchestra. On Friday they rushed through a single rehearsal. On Saturday they proudly played it for the world to hear. After all that pother, it turned...
...experiments. In the first the actual pattern of the cubes was transferred from a full six photographic print to a prepared panel of gesso. The form of each cube was then laboriously incised into the gesso and painted in tempera. The second experiment was made directly on a photostat. The form of each cube in this case was raised with gesso, somewhat in the manner of the raised letters in a medieval manuscript, and them painted with glue tempera...
...articles in the CRIMSON last November discussing the legal aspects of the Narragansett Park mix-up. These articles have been expanded considerably, packed between a clarifying introduction and a voluminous set of appendices, and salted down with a fistfulls of apt quotations. As an Added Feature there is a photostat of the famous "Star Tribune" asserting Governor Quinn to be in an insane asylum and (for the kiddies) lots of pictures of soldiers and horses...
Last week, the ingenious Mr. Morgan having died (TIME, May 3), Secretary Early felt called upon to make explanations, because Representative Bertrand H. Snell (Republican) produced the photostat of a letter, purporting to have been sent out by the Democratic National Committee, offering copies of the book for sale and saying: "We are using this book as a means of clearing up the deficit and the President has made his contribution by individually autographing each of the volumes...
...servants, and went after him. And they went to Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered the synagogue and taught. . . . -Mark, I: 17-22. In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George W. Lamsa bent over a photostat of a large block of weathered stone covered with squiggly characters. He immediately recognized these as Aramaic, quickly and easily translated them into English...