Part 24 (1/2)

First Anniversary Finds Little Change in Relative Strength of the Two Opposing Forces.

=h.e.l.l-box.=--The box into which waste lead is thrown for remelting in the stereotyping room.

=Hold.=--An instruction written at the beginning of copy or proof, instructing the make-up man in the printing room to hold the article, not print it, until he has received further orders.

=Human Interest Story.=--See _Feature Story_.

=I.N.S.=--Abbreviation for International News Service.

=Insert.=--One or more sentences or paragraphs inserted in the body of a story already written, giving fuller or more accurate information.

=Jump-head.=--A headline put above the continuation of a story begun on a preceding page.

=Justifier.=--A short story of little or no news value inserted at the foot of a column to fill it out evenly.

=Justify.=--To make even or true by proper s.p.a.cing, as lines of type or columns on a page.

=Kill.=--To destroy the whole or a part of a story, usually after it has been set in type.

=Lead.=--The initial sentence or paragraph of a story, into which is crammed the gist of the article. See page 68.

=Lead.=--Thin strips of metal placed between lines of type to make the lines stand farther apart, and hence to make the story stand out more prominently on the printed page.

=Lower Case.=--(1) A shallow wooden receptacle divided into compartments called boxes, for keeping separate the small letters of a font of type; distinguished from the _upper case_ which stands slantingly above the lower case and contains the capital letters; hence (2) the letters in that case.

=Make-up.=--The arrangement of type into columns and pages preparatory to printing.

=Make-up Man.=--The workman who arranges composed type in forms preparatory to printing.

=Morgue.=--The filing cabinet or room in which are kept stories and obituaries of prominent persons, photographs of them, their families, and their homes, clippings of various kinds about disasters, religious a.s.sociations, big conventions, strikes, wars, etc. See page 9.

=Must.=--A direction put on the margin of copy to indicate that the story must be printed.

=Pi.=--Type that has been so jumbled or disarranged that it cannot be used until rea.s.sembled.

=Pi Line.=--A freak line set up by a compositor when he has made an error in the line and completed it by striking the keys at random until he has filled out the measure and cast the slug: ETAOINS

=Play Up.=--To emphasize by writing about with unusual fullness.

=Police Blotter.=--See _Blotter_.

=Pony Report.=--A condensed report of the day's news, sent out by news bureaus to papers that are not able or do not care to subscribe for the full service.

=Proof-reader.=--One whose time is given to reading and making corrections in the printer's proof; not to be confused with _Copy-reader_.

=Prove.=--To take a proof of or from.

=Pull.=--To make an impression on a hand-press: as, to _pull_ a proof.

=Pyramid Head.=--A heading of three, four, or five lines,--usually of three,--the first of which is full, the second indented at both sides, the third still more indented at both sides, all the lines being centered. See _Head_.