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- noun Plural form of
linotypist .
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Much as I love the digital world, I also love the old world of movable lead type, the building that shook every night after midnight as the presses rolled, the gruff professional linotypists who scorned us elite college kids.
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I remember in the mid-1970s when our college newspaper went from hot type to cold, and how my friends’ fathers and uncles who were linotypers (linotypists?) with the Post and Daily News would, after several strikes, be relegated to playing poker in a room after union settlements had them still employed at the papers but without any real work …
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