Word: type
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This year, for the first time, there will be a complete renovation of type by a more modern and easily readable kind which was used in this year's Register. Paralleling this distinct Improve- ment over previous editions, Bliss added that the new candid pictorial section instituted by last year's book will be greatly increased...
...gentleman stigmatized is the gentleman who has ruled England for the past two centuries; he is a way of life whose manifestations in politics and international affairs have at least in part been responsible for the present war. Mr. Laski's strictures against him, and his conviction that the type must inevitably go, are tempered by a certain ironical fondness which is to be explained in terms of the fact that the essay was written...
...Harvard needs is a little encouragement to break, forth in the beer - drinking, lamppost - hanging type of singing that we are going to sponsor next year," Coleman remarked. He added that tryouts will soon be given in the Union for interested Freshmen...
When the Marquis de Lafayette paid his final visit to the U. S. in 1825, the hawk-nosed old hero was persuaded to sit for a new type of life mask, the invention of a young New York sculptor named John Henri Isaac Browere. From the mask Sculptor Browere made a widely .acclaimed bust. That gave him a grand idea: do the same by every American great and near great, get Congress to house his busts in a national gallery. Till he died of cholera nine years later, Browere worked busily toward his goal. But Congress never, built the gallery...
...responsible for developing the American cocker (the English cocker is a slightly different type) to its present state of near-perfection is My Own Brucie's owner, 52-year-old Herman Mellenthin. A lover of cocker spaniels since 1895, when they were larger and lazier. Breeder Mellenthin established a kennel in Milwaukee 33 years ago, moved it to Poughkeepsie five years later...