stickful

The matter was not even a nine-days 'wonder, for other things occupied the attention of the press, and a stickful was the most it ever got in any paper.

The Lost Valley James Morgan Walsh 1924

And Uncle Abner cackled insinuatingly at the editor's remark, for he was expecting at least a "stickful" in the "Personal Notes" of the

Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886

"stickful" daily, and it was cut off from the privileges of the

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various

= -- This is the little story of a stickful or less, which merely announces the result of some distant or unimportant game.

Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing Grant Milnor Hyde

A column is usually a little less than 1,500 words and a stickful is the amount of type that can be set in a compositor's

Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing Grant Milnor Hyde

When all the yarn has been entered into the dye-bath, the first stickful is lifted out, the yarn turned over and re-entered in the dye-liquor; this operation is carried out with all the sticks of yarn until the wool has become dyed of the required depth.

The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech

When all the yarn has been entered into the dye-bath, the first stickful is lifted out, the yarn turned over and re-entered in the dye-liquor, this operation is carried out with all the sticks of yarn until the cotton has become dyed of the required depth.

The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

Seldom is it possible to find any one person who knows all the facts just as the newspaper wants them, and many a story that is worth but a stickful in the first edition is the result of two hours 'running about town, half a dozen telephone calls, and a dozen interviews.

Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing Grant Milnor Hyde

On the other hand, a daily in a city of average size would reduce such a story to a stickful and a metropolitan daily would run only a one-line announcement in the "List of marriages," unless the story was especially interesting.

Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing Grant Milnor Hyde

Before any one can hope to write for a newspaper he must know something about news values -- something about the essence of interest that makes one story worth a column and cuts down another, of equal importance from other points of view, to a stickful.

Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing Grant Milnor Hyde