Sentences with phrase «read old newspaper»

To background themselves on the city and its schools, they read old newspaper stories and talked to community leaders, who told them about my involvement in the effort to create a separate school district.

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Perhaps newspaper readership among young people would grow if every time we opened a paper, we didn't have to read old men's fusty opinions about uteri.»

I still read my old standby national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today via their apps.

If you're old enough to remember a time before mobile devices existed, you may wistfully yearn for the days when people were head - up, paid better attention to conversations and read books or the newspaper instead of scrolling through a Facebook feed on their phones.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

I remember how crazy we were to buy a handful of salted Jamuns wrapped loosely in a newspaper (yes, you read it right) from an old lady outside our school premise.

She kept a binder filled with handwritten recipes and clippings from old newspapers and magazines, which I... Continue Reading

«People watch ESPN and read a few newspapers and think they're informed to bet,» says Wayne Allyn Root, a 33 - year - old professional handicapper in Las Vegas.

However, Liverpool have taken a long time to get the deal done and it looks like the Reds are set to miss out on the signing of Suarez as revelation has been made by Spanish newspaper AS that the 28 - year old is now on the verge of joining Premier... [Read more...]

I just read in the newspaper that a 32 - year - old man in East Dubuque, Ill., was convicted of strangling his wife during an argument.

One Region Forward open house Monday July 17, 2014 Lockport Union - Sun & Journal, the oldest newspaper in Niagara County covering the Lockport Area, recently published an article about the July 2014... Read more...

But for political commentators and the voter who may wish to look beyond newspapers, the old media and the internet, there are some interesting books to provide background reading for the general election.

That will give the heirs to Britain's peerages with older sisters something to chew on as they read their newspapers over the breakfast table.

Depending on which newspaper you read, his supporters are depicted as one of old - fashioned socialists following union orders, affluent Islington drawing - room liberals, excitable young social media types, or even Tories in disguise.

They likely read the states oldest newspaper, The Leaf - Chronicle, dating back to 1808, and many.

Almost immediately after we settle in with his quiet life, Danny receives a package containing a photograph of his old partner Hunter (Robert De Niro, in a performance of phoned - in, dull line readings) holding a newspaper.

A native of New York City, where he grew up in a household that read six newspapers daily, he dreamed of ending his days like the tabloid - famous Collyer brothers of Manhattan, who died in their brownstone, buried under piles of old papers.

A few days later, Bobby sees an opportunity to purchase the coveted bike himself when the old man with failing eyesight offers to pay Bobby a dollar a day for reading the newspaper out loud and watching for «Low Men» — a debased pack of strangers Ted believes are hounding him.

About two years ago, my older daughter (then 7) and I were reading an article in the newspaper about the U.S. government, and she asked me, «Daddy, can you make a book for me on how the U.S. government works?»

In contrast, a 10 - year - old neighbor visited her every Friday night when the children's edition of the local newspaper arrived, and the girl would ask lots of questions as they read it together.

The average 15 - 19 year old in the U.S. spends just six minutes a day on recreational reading of books, newspapers and magazines, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I am close to 50 years old and have NO PROBLEMS converting to e-readers as opposed to reading newspapers, magazines and paperbacks.

Kennedy foraged for food, lived on the street, and taught himself to read with old newspapers.

In this day and age of instant 24 - hour news access, that people paid a dime to come and listen to news being read to them from «old» newspapers is fascinating.

According to our December 2011 national survey, Americans under age 30 are more likely than older adults to do reading of any sort (including books, magazines, journals, newspapers, and online content) for work or school, or to satisfy their own curiosity on a topic.

I'd pick up the medical magazines off my father's desk and read those and also old newspapers in the garage.

In essence, a daily newspaper prints yesterday's news, which is then read at the end of the work day, making it nearly two days old.

However, due to a newspaper home delivery snafu, I ended up reading the Toronto Sun on the subway this morning instead of my preferred National Post (old habits die hard!).

Basically, I spotted the old man drinking a coffee and reading a newspaper in good lighting so I asked him if I could snap a shot of him.

The artist has screen - printed monochromatic collages directly on to the soft plaster of the sculptures, resulting in sections of blacks, whites and smeary greys reminiscent of old newspapers, scuffed by time and difficult to read.

I worked with wood and cloth; I got an old treadle sewing machine and made things like a huge armchair with a figure in it which I called Daddy Reading the Newspaper.

They do have a responsibility to at the very least EXPLAIN IT IN TERMS that a Politician and anyone with a 12 yr old reading ability (ir newspaper comprehension level can grasp)-- but that's it.

I'm old enough and experienced enough not to believe every thing I hear on the media or read in newspapers, especially when they report only one side of such an important issue.

In the past, BMI had to staff «14 regional offices around the country, with field agents reading local newspapers and scouring the land on foot and by car, ever on the lookout for new bars and restaurants or old ones that aren't paying for their music.»

In a digitally connected, smart - phone enabled internet era, there are early signs that the necessity of physically attending monthly set - dates could become as quaint as reading a pulp newspaper while getting your shoes shined down by the old five - and - dime.

videos are going to teach my nine - month - old how to read the newspaper??»

There is the use of Foursquare, of course, to announce when you're not home; listing a funeral or wedding in the newspaper, which will allow industrious robbers who read the newspaper to hit your house while you are mourning at the funeral or living it up at the wedding reception; and even using an answering machine to say you're «not home» (according to an old Family Circle magazine article).

basically all I'm permitted to do is — find second reading speeches — find old legislation or EM's — track down cases that we don't have electronic access to, (Document delivery from interstate or using other local law libraries e.g supreme court library); and — newspaper article searches.

In July 2000, there was news that the company had plans to create digital images from microfilmed newspapers, in partnership with Bell and Howell Information and Learning: Andrew Flynn, «Read all about it: Web site to archive old newspapers — Ottawa firm gets rights to 11,000 North American papers dating to 1700s,» Toronto Star, July 3, 2000 (LexisNexis).

Having broken links is as bad as having a hallway that goes nowhere and bad content is worse than giving visitors to your office old newspapers to read.

Of course, laptop tapping might just be email, or text messaging, or solitaire, in which case it's a little different from the old days, when reading the newspaper in class was a dead giveaway.

Nonetheless, some people reading this might be old enough to remember searching for apartments for rent in newspapers and other print classified ads.

The first ad, which focuses on augmented reality, features a girl riding her bike across a city street whereupon she comes across an older man quietly reading a newspaper on a bench.

Lots of folks still read the newspaper classifieds, especially the older ones.