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To: central_va

Kind of funny to me that whoever wrote the test didn’t do a very good job proofreading their own work before they sent it off to the mimeograph.


18 posted on 08/11/2024 8:21:09 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

It looks like old fashioned type setting.


20 posted on 08/11/2024 8:25:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Organic Panic
Kind of funny to me that whoever wrote the test didn’t do a very good job proofreading their own work before they sent it off to the mimeograph.

Wrong. This is obviously a proportional font, which did not exist in 1912. It seems to have been transcribed from an original 1912 document to a post-1970s word processor or typewriter, which is what is shown in the link above. I am betting the original did not have typos.

26 posted on 08/11/2024 8:38:41 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Organic Panic
Kind of funny to me that whoever wrote the test didn’t do a very good job proofreading their own work before they sent it off to the mimeograph.

I only saw one actual typo -- endeavor, misspelled "eneeavor." But some of the place names like Servia and Roumania and other oddities were considered proper at the time. I was confused by the comma after Magnetic in the list of inventions. Magnetic what? Did they mean magnetism? If so, that inventor was Faraday.

53 posted on 08/11/2024 12:23:41 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Despair serves the regime.” —J.D. Vance)
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