Word: photostats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of the committee later passed Sullivan's motion to photostat copies of the petition to be distributed to all school committee members. Shaplin requested that the group ask legal counsel to determine whether the move was within the law, but, agreeing with Fitzgerald that the committee could do what it wished with the petition, the majority defeated his proposal...
...origin of the miscellaneous notes from the different types of paper used in different countries. For years these same notes have been a huge index to hundreds of foreign manuscripts. Wolfson reads them, and when he finds a suggestion of relevant material he writes to Europe for a photostat of the page he wants. With this system, he has avoided the need of repeated trips abroad...
...refinement of the cooperative expansion in the Farmington Plan, under which most of America's great libraries buy only one copy of every book published abroad. This volume is placed in the library assuming responsibility for the field, and is available by loan or photostat to cooperating libraries...
Even in Hollywood, the glittering new green & gold Cadillac of a young man named Nick Spanos caused pedestrians to stare. But the real eye-stopper was the photostat of a check which Spanos proudly showed friends as he drove about. The amount: $1,333,605.22. Lawyer Spanos, 33, had collected it for a client from Cinemogul Spyros P. Skouras' famed 20th Century-Fox and eight other movie companies, after winning one of the biggest legal awards in Hollywood's history...
...writes: "A dispatch out of London reveals that the leading Jewish paper [unnamed] of that city now admits that Eisenhower is a Jew." Smith's Patriotic Tract Society distributes scurrilous anti-Ike ammunition from a St. Louis post-office-box address. Prize offering (25 copies for $1): a photostat of a page in the 1915 Howitzer, the U.S. Military Academy yearbook, in which Cadet Dwight David Eisenhower was called "the terrible Swedish-Jew, as big as life and twice as natural." This gag was explained long ago by Eisenhower and classmates as a piece of cumbersome West Point horseplay...