type-setting
Example Sentences
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He had been gaining rather rapidly as a student of type-setting, and to a certain extent of the theory of reporting, and he worked diligently and earnestly at his proposed trade.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
Apprentices in newspaper composing rooms are permitted to spend the last six months of their period working on type-setting machines.
From Wage Earning and Education by Rufus Rolla Lutz
It will suffice to name among them the steam hammer, the sewing machine, the cylinder printing-press, the type-setting machine, the rubber vulcanizer, and the innumerable improvements in steam engines and labor-saving apparatus of all kinds.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
Still type-setting was no bright field for a person of his temperament.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
A Washington special in the New York News says: The company owning the type-setting machine has arranged to put up fifty of these machines for the transaction of business.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
