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

    The Story of the Thirteen Colonies | H. A. (Hlne Adeline) Guerber
  • He would continue to set type, silent and detached, until an evening when he would want to go somewhere on a train—and go.

    The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson
  • Hand compositors would have to learn to set type by machinery or go down in the struggle for existence.

    The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson
  • Men in the Municipal uniform were working over the small job press and dumping the hand-set type from the boxes.

    Police Your Planet | Lester del Rey
  • In the printing business, for instance, the old time printer knew how to set type, lock up forms and to run a press.

    Dollars and Sense | Col. Wm. C. Hunter

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