Sentences with phrase «typewriter for»

Take the typewriter for example, that heavy lump that sat on your folk's dining table every night; maybe it's that traditional no - second - chance quality sparking their resurgence, or maybe they just look great in your home office.

I love using my typewriter for different seasons — I can't wait for that pumpkin pie!

All I know is it looked like a massive typewriter for some kind of giant recruitment consultant and needed some old Doris to come in once a week to operate it.

There was even an electronic paper typewriter for the hipster inside of us (aptly named «Hemingwrite»).

Although my eyes became red and strained after about three hours darting from her typed page to the computer screen and back, I reminded myself of Margaret at her typewriter for years, pouring out her heart and soul, trying to make sense of what was happening to her.

You used a typewriter for your answers to the illustrated Q&A, which was surprising.

Consider the moment where Noble explains to us halfwits who Athena is to diagnose exactly how early the script is in its development and how no one cared enough to go back to the typewriter for one more pass.

We were a bit bummed though since we had gone after an Underwood typewriter for my office that looked pristine and once again we were too late... a guy just before Robert had snatched up the 3 typewriters they had for sale.

I love using my typewriter for different seasons — I can't wait for that pumpkin pie!

About five years ago the San Diego Chargers» Ron Mix tackled a typewriter for the first time for this magazine and turned out a delightful piece he called I Swore I Would Quit Football (SI, Sept. 16, 1963).

O'Connor's regimen was to sit at her manual typewriter for two or three hours and follow her characters around.

I have wanted a typewriter for years.

Not exact matches

The process for writing a book is almost the same as it was 50 years ago, except you type on a computer instead of a typewriter now.

For example, I tell of getting a typewriter in kindergarten, because it ties into my story as a writer.

And he was looking at the keyboard on the typewriter and looking for a symbol that wasn't very much used and» @» fulfilled that function.

Considering that a fax machine is apt to need service as frequently as a laser printer or an electronic typewriter — about one and a half times a year — learning to perform even a minor repair (for example: «Soldering Tips and Techniques») will sooner or later cover the price of the book.

Not pausing for lunch, they spend their days passing 900,000 sheets through each copier, pounding 20 million strokes on every electric typewriter, sitting down on the same chair 20,000 times, and outputting 7,500 sheets of paper from every printer.

«They see it as a fancy typewriter and use it for mailing lists and word processing,» says Fields.

The two left New York in 1980, spending an academic year in Philadelphia before settling in Western Massachusetts in 1981 — and founding Accurate Writing & More with an initial marketing cost of $ 12 and a total start - up under $ 200 (most of it for a 13 - year - old IBM Selectric typewriter).

The two left New York in 1980, spending a year in Philadelphia before settling in Western Massachusetts in 1981 — and founding Accurate Writing & More with an initial marketing cost of $ 12 and a total start - up under $ 200 (most of it for a 13 - year - old IBM Selectric typewriter).

The business paved the way for computing in an era of typewriters.

For my birthday, Brian got me a vintage Sears typewriter.

He leveled a ridiculing swipe at the U.S. project: «It may seem unwise for one British pen to compete with the massed typewriters of the United States.»

Habitual patterns of response, such as getting dressed, riding a bicycle, using a typewriter, so painfully and self - consciously learned at the time, become quite unconscious.37 A centralized nervous system or its close analogue may be the necessary basis for consciousness, but consciousness itself is the inner concomitant of the presence of some novelty which has not yet faded into the background through incessant repetition.

My thanks go to my secretary, Sharon Massengale, for her skill at the typewriter, and to my graduate assistant, Cecil Taylor, for his skill in research.

While I fully appreciate the internet, the Web, digital music, You Tube and all the rest, I had the advantage of learning how to write using a typewriter, of doing research with a pile of dead tree editions, and of the need to carry a lot of knowledge in my head, organized for rapid recall.

After he had turned down a request by the Time - Life editors to go to Russia and write a «Foods of the World» title on Russian cuisine, he was struck by what seems to have been carpal tunnel syndrome and his doctor told him to avoid writing with his right hand for six months (he didn't use a typewriter).

If you hooked up a generator to our typewriters, we probably could've produced enough power to light up the Vegas strip for a fortnight or two.

There were probably times when such a tactic was effective (the 1970's for instance) but just like typewriters, floppy disks and VHS tapes the rest of the world has moved on.

She mentions, «Since Renegade Craft Fair takes place on Father's Day weekend, I made a special collection of cufflinks for Dad made with recycled vintage components including watch movements, typewriter keys, and bingo pieces.»

Having found this form in the Constitution, I had it set up on the typewriter, and the oath was administered by my father in his capacity as a notary public, an office he had held for a great many years.

That is why I say in my book Emergency Politics that, without the events that proceduralists want to marginalise — like the crowd protests in the streets of Philadelphia (discussed by Jason Frank in Constituent Moments)-- for example, the idea of attachment to a constitution is about as «attractive as kissing a typewriter.»

For my first, I typed my copy on a manual typewriter with paper and carbon.

With this strength in mind, he sat down at his typewriter and began tapping out an argument for full - fledged animal studies to examine phytic acid's potential for protecting against heart disease and cancer.

An ingenious design for an early robot hooks up a large electrically operated eye to a electrically enhanced typewriter.

So you can reduce environmental wear and tear by wearing items that can take a beating: Tennis ball watches or old - typewriter bracelets, recycled rubber tire shoes and bags; but eco-trends are a flimsy substitute for real change.

You report that, for security reasons, the Kremlin is thinking of using typewriters instead of computers (20 July, p 19).

For one thing, QWERTY enjoyed a head start, as the keyboard layout of the first commercially successful typewriter.

Why did QWERTY nevertheless prevail, even after improvements in typewriter technology (reducing the jamming problem) and the demand for fast typing had removed the original motivation for it?

The first recorded typewriter patent was filed in 1714 by the British engineer Henry Mill, for an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another, as in writing... so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print.

If you're typically a runner, run for 5 minutes then stop and do 10 squats, 10 reverse lunges each leg, and 30 lunge jump typewriters.

All of your charming details — letter in the typewriter, fairy lights under cloches, trees in measuring cups, just make your home absolutely delightful for Christmas!

Well, it's for making copies on a typewriter.

Outfit — MNG blazer from JC Penney; Unknown brand blouse and floral pants from M's Clothing ($ 9.99 each piece); GUNAS Camel Sweetheart purse from Modavanti (on sale for $ 70); Prabal Gurung for Target shoes; necklace, vintage typewriter & Recoil rings by Suki Bijoux; Wendy Brandes @ ring; Spot On glasses by Nicole Miller from GlassesUSA (on sale for $ 52); vintage Spanish gold earrings

I have a thing for antique cameras and typewriters, and you have styled yours beautifully.

That typewriter was a steal — just found it at a junk fest a few months ago for $ 35!

With a set of alphabet stamps and a black ink pad ($ 6.49 for typewriter alphabet stamp set; $ 3.99 for pad; joann.com), stamp the phrase of your choice onto each ring.

Based on the keys of a vintage typewriter, this set offers limitless opportunities for creative expression that's at once contemporary and classic.

This antique typewriter was definitely inspiration for our Christmas decor.

With his chin - forward stance and ready - for - action manner, Hanks seems utterly at home amid the typewriter clatter of production designer Rick Carter's newsroom sets.