Sentences with phrase «through old newspapers»

Few people wanted to dig through old newspapers, annual reports and other material to get at the data.

Then someone told him to check out Congressman John Murtha's past, and Morano spent a week in western Pennsylvania going through old newspaper files.

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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.

The 53 - year - old academic walked with no entourage through the lobby of the Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel clutching a mobile phone and a newspaper.

Riffling through old cookbooks at our mom's house one Christmas, we came across a newspaper clipping from over 30 years ago.

Cover your space with an old sheet (color bleeds through newspaper), and wear rubber gloves and a smock or apron.

There are 3 people doing all the field work on this and it must have been an immense job to go through all the old newspapers from those days.

An «Insider» says Arsenal will have to pay $ 60m to sign exciting 21 - year - old attacker, but then when we do the sums that is indeed the same as the # 53m — just another case of one newspaper having a load of little bloggy things and running the same story through all of them.

Whereas the old masters could lay some claim to nobility of purpose, at that crucial juncture of Nigerian press history, it would appear a cynic's haven for the present players: the advertiser that slams his message in your face because he has the cash to splash, the newspaper investor that projects nothing but brazen self - interest, just because again he has the cash to drive the business, and of course, the ethnic pressure group that, through the media, screams injustice!

Newspapers were filled with stories and maps and casualty lists; people who had been children during the Civil War recalled years later that they had eagerly followed the progress of «their» armies — in which fathers or older brothers often marched — through their local papers.

The older the participant, the less likely he or she was to report meeting people by going to bars / night clubs, r = − 0.24, p < 0.01 or through friends, r = − 0.33, p < 0.001, and the more likely he or she was to report meeting people through newspaper personals ads, r = 0.25, p < 0.01.

And once the fateful decision to publish is made, Spielberg indulges in a good old - fashioned montage devoted to the newspaper printing process, from typesetting to the paper rolling through the presses to the bundled copies being dropped at newsstands before dawn.

Two high - school history teachers — one retired one still teaching — have developed lessons using reproductions of old newspapers through a program called Historical Fishwrap (fish wrap is an old expression for a used newspaper).

The educational force of the wider culture is now the primary site where education takes place, what I have called public pedagogy — modes of education largely produced, mediated, and circulated through a range of educational spheres extending from the new media and old broadcast media to films, newspapers, television programs, cable TV, cell phones, the Internet, and other commercial sites.

She takes out letters, some of them more than a hundred years old, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, magazines, and leafs through them, she thumbs through the pile of lifeless paper and then sorts it yet again, this time on the floor, or on the desk by the window.

For awhile I told stories through music and then I told stories in newspapers and later I told stories in books, the best known being Tuesdays with Morrie, a story about my old teacher who was living to the fullest even as he was dying.

But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura's grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family's history that reveals love, loss - and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.

In 2012, Stewart stumbled across a 1914 newspaper article about them and went on to uncover their amazing history through genealogical archives, court records, old newspapers, and interviews with family members.

[17][18] She searched through old magazines, posters, and newspapers to source imagery for her paintings.

At least some of the answer can be obtained by a huge amount of slogging through construction records, news reports (campus newspaper, newsletter of host / data - collection organizations, etc.), and old photographs.