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The hectograph is a device for making copies of written work. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
During the Rag’s first year, the print was purple—those issues were produced on a flat plate of jelly called a hectograph. From Wordnik.com. [on writing by stephen king] Reference
Lay a plain sheet on the hectograph and rub as before. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
When sufficient copies have been made, wash the hectograph with. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
With the aid of a knife and some hectograph ink this alteration was soon made. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Reproducing the charts that follow on a hectograph or similar device may be useful. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Lay a sheet of unglazed paper on the hectograph, rub it carefully, and take off at once. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
Some seventy issues were published, the first of which were duplicated by hectograph in 1919 – 1921. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew Song, 1880-2000.] Reference
You can have students make this, or you can produce it with a hectograph or cyclostyle or other copying device. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Write the material to be copied, in hectograph ink, on a sheet of the same size as that on which the copy is to be made. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
We were able to put together in two nights what had previously taken a week with the hectograph, and while the drum-press was messy, it did not look infected with a potentially fatal disease. From Wordnik.com. [on writing by stephen king] Reference
It was a hectograph copy, announcing that a meeting of the more important members of the Third Form would be held in the Forum at half-past six prompt to consider a matter of pressing importance. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Lay the written side of the sheet on the hectograph and rub it carefully over its whole surface with a soft cloth, so that every particle of the writing comes in contact with the surface of the hectograph. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
His father was the editor of a provincial paper, and Jessel ran a journal of his own at the school, by the aid of a hectograph and Jowitt, of the same Form, who was sub-editor, reporter, and "printer's devil" rolled into one. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Duplicate copies can be made on a hectograph, one set for each lesson; then if one envelope from each set is preserved, those miscellaneous lessons can be used in review for a long time, each child using a different set each time. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Phonics] Reference
At first we made the hectograph and printed the proclamations in our rooms at night. From Wordnik.com. [My Life]
I wrote proclamations and articles, and printed them all out in longhand for the hectograph. From Wordnik.com. [My Life]
Two of the workers, a young boy and girl, would watch reverently as I pulled the freshly printed sheets off the hectograph, and then would exchange glances. From Wordnik.com. [My Life]
A few classes began poring over their text-books, but most of the pupils had their work passed out to them in the form of hectograph copies of exercises prepared in the school itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Mouse] Reference
LAKE ELSINORE ---- When Mark LaPorte started teaching school 30 years ago, he made copies of assignments with a hectograph by adding ink into a pan of gelatin and pressing paper onto it. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Instead of the usual collection of text-books in the desk, there were hectograph copies of exercises, reading lessons, arithmetical tables and essays on various matters relating to agriculture, all of which were accounted for by two or three hand-made hectographs -- a very fair sort of printing plant -- lying on a table. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Mouse] Reference
He furnished the Superintendent off-hand with a translation of the words, and Miller forthwith struck off a number of hectograph copies of it, which he has distributed among the senior officials of his department; so that at present "-- here Thorndyke gave vent to a soft chuckle --" Scotland Yard is engaged in a sort of missing word -- or, rather, missing sense -- competition. From Wordnik.com. [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference
We had a poor-man’s ditto machine, called a hectograph. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday, Feb. 17 – The Bleat.] Reference
Miller invited me to join in the sport, and to that end presented me with one of the hectograph copies on which to exercise my wits, together with a photograph of the document. ". From Wordnik.com. [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference
"Here," answered the teacher, handing each a typewritten sheet for use as the original from which the young mountaineers were to make hectograph copies, "and mind you make good copies!. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Mouse] Reference
As a teenager, waiting for the hectograph to “freshen” between pages printed while “freshening,” the print would melt into a vague purple membrane which hung in the jelly like a manatee’s shadow drove David all but insane with impatience. From Wordnik.com. [on writing by stephen king] Reference
If it had been possible for any one to look at all this with a 'sober" eye, at this group of young people scurrying about in the half-darkness around a miserable hectograph, what a sorry, fantastic thing it would have seemed to imagine that they could, in this way, overthrow a mighty state that was centuries old!. From Wordnik.com. [My Life]
Wipe the hectograph with a damp cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
The hectograph may be used again immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
She will also supply many other unconsidered trifles in the way of ammunition, torpedoes, rope, canvas, paint, emery paper, bath-brick, oil, bolts, nuts, pens, red ink, black ink, hectograph ink, foolscap, pencils, paper fasteners, postage stamps. From Wordnik.com. [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference
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