| 词源 |
30 (thirty). For over a century the symbol 30 has been used by reporters to mark the end of a typewritten newspaper story. It comes either from the old telegraphy symbol indicating the end of a day’s transmission, a kind of “Goodnight, I’m closing up the office,” or from old printers’ jargon. The maximum line on Linotype composing machines is 30 picas, about five inches, and when an operator reaches 30 picas, he can go no farther. |