photocopy

By Smithsonian magazine’s tally, Americans got by with a mere 20 million photocopies a year in the late 1950s.

But toward the end, a federal immigration official she had met with said he needed Marques May to follow him so he could photocopy her passport, he recalled.

Not a photocopied handout in English tucked into an envelope behind a paycheck, not a rushed talk in Spanish at the field’s edge, but a verified safety course — certified by labor contractors and farmers alike.

The government says the new app will mean further education colleges no longer have to hire extra staff to photocopy results or chase missing paperwork from prospective students.

One aggravating visual tic is that most of the male characters are photocopies of each other, a stack of handsome men with sandy brown goatees.