Word: type
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...nine items which Taylor said the cards should cover are: 1. Name and class; 2. College address; 3. Telephone number; 4. Subject or subjects prepared to talk on, at five days notice; 5. Type of audience preferred (age, size, sex, race, environment, etc.); 6. Number of times desiring to speak during spring term; 7. Nights of week (usually around 8 o'clock) on which it would be impossible to speak; 8. Interest in speaking--whether intense, moderate, or merely experimental; 9. Willingness to speak during the coming college year (to eliminate the necessity of questionnaires again next fall...
Offset might save some papers as much as 50% in capital investment, 25% in operating costs. But there was a hitch in it: it needed a composing typewriter that could turn out lines of copy as clear and even as cast type. Such a typewriter has been invented but is not yet in production...
...earnings in excess of $3,140,000 ($4.05 a share), up 610%; unfilled orders over $40,000,000 (they jumped to $70,000,000 last week). Bob Gross's preview was incidentally a potent sales talk for an operation that took place last week. It was a type of operation that has threatened to become obsolete: a public offering of common stock to obtain new capital...
Certain artists can shift from palette to lithographer's stone without varying either the quality or the type of work which they usually produce. Take Matisse, for example. His art is primarily decorative and is intended to soothe and placate rather than incite the spectator. Matisse relies mainly upon the sensitivity of his line and the balanced harmony of his color to attain this end; but strangely enough, when he leaves the field of color and portrays a subject through the print medium, his result is the same, namely a rather abstract picture which is neither more nor less than...
Fundamental reason, I think, is that symphony men have an idea that jazz consists of playing everything in dotted eighth-sixteenth time, with the result that you get a rhythm something like the rag-time of 1906. Jazz has a very succinct term for this type of playing: "corny...