Word: sampler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process starts with a special photographic plate which "screens" the original picture with a mesh of fine crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard half-tone print-are thus laid out in a pattern like a cross-stitch sampler. To each tone a letter is assigned-D for deep black, A for very light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters and linotype machines are corresponding characters-big D dots, tiny A dots, etc. A series of code phrases describes a picture line by line horizontally. For example, a line...
...This poet and scholar has long had the fate to be efficient in university administration: he could make one pink card do what two blue cards had done before; he could chart the careers of professors and plot the curves of deans; he could embroider academic records in beautiful sampler designs, and prune, if need be, catalogues and committee reports into the most lovely shapes--hearts, crosses, pyramids, love-knots. Because he could do this he was made to do it, though he regularly protested. But after years of protest and endurance he has--if we may be pardoned...