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set type

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Here Franklin learned to set type and to handle the rude press then in use.

He would continue to set type, silent and detached, until an evening when he would want to go somewhere on a train—and go.

Hand compositors would have to learn to set type by machinery or go down in the struggle for existence.

Men in the Municipal uniform were working over the small job press and dumping the hand-set type from the boxes.

In the printing business, for instance, the old time printer knew how to set type, lock up forms and to run a press.

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On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to set type, such as: conceive, design, devise, form, invent, and orchestrate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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