"When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth.
32.
A full foolscap paper sheet is actually in size, and a folio sheet of any type is half the standard sheet size or a subdivision of this into halves, quarters and so on.
33.
UK file cabinets are slightly different from US in the width of the rails which support the suspension files, the US ones being narrower; the UK sizes are known as foolscap and A3.
34.
These were written directly into bound foolscap volumes, a page or more a day, each night; throughout his life, he totalled some twelve volumes and the best part of a million words.
35.
Accordingly, the House reading clerk had to buck the celebratory buzz of a fresh crop of winners waiting to be sworn in as he dispatched one piece of business as just another routine bit of congressional foolscap.
36.
The first issue was released in July 1972, and " consisted of twelve foolscap pages-stapled " . 200 copies were produced, which sold out, and before the second issue was published they had 50 paid subscribers.
37.
Mourning Dove agreed to the changes, later writing to him : " My book of Cogewea would never have been anything but the cheap foolscap paper that it was written on if you had not helped me get it in shape.
38.
American paper sizes ( letter, legal, etc ) and some older UK sizes ( eg foolscap ) are just a mess-they don't have that cool folding property because that 1.4142 ratio isn't followed.
39.
"At the end of the day, " he said, " that'll be a private yea or nay in my own mind, a piece of foolscap which I will then put in my shredder ."
40.
Such items of record include brown and loaf sugar, Canary, Malga and Bordeaux wine ( known then as Claret wine ), bleached osnaburg, powder, shot, lead, cordage, leans soup, foolscap sealing wax and Scotch snuff.
