type-setting

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The idea of its founder was that it should teach not only the studies usually taught in college, but also other practical branches of education, such as telegraphy, type-setting, type-writing, book-keeping, and farming.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Still type-setting was no bright field for a person of his temperament.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

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 Morris, Charles

Monday, Rule was at work, type-setting in the Watch office.

From For Woman's Love by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

The compositor fairly ran to his type-setting machine and began to operate the keys, which were arranged like those on a very large typewriter.

From Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Garis, Howard Roger