1. The thing to remember about proof-reading is that a proof-reader's corrections are intended as advice to the printer, not as a punishment to the writer. BNC
2. Some women were proof-readers, but otherwise, being excluded from machine typesetting, they were left with odd jobs to do round the office. BNC
3. With a team of proof-readers working together, we did a very competent job and there was hardly a misprint in something like four hundred pages. BNC