Sentences with phrase «typewriters in»

Support staff still used typewriters in those days, I even saw some that used carbon paper, and the IBM Selectric typewriter was the best there was.

I've observed how some of the traditional trappings of the legal profession, like typewriters in law practice, bike couriers and fancy law firm libraries, are going extinct.

Lucasart's Clink Hocking has blasted L.A. Noire as being «derivative» and «uninspired,» whilst the CEO of Paradox Interactive has likened Ubisoft's 3DS lineup as being the «best typewriters in the world.»

A company called King Jim has been selling their line of E Ink typewriters in Japan for the past decade, and now they're trying to bring their pocket typewriter to the US.

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The students had access to electronic typewriters in the typing rooms.

Despite the popularity of the ZX80 — the company purportedly sold 100,000 of them worldwide that year — the readers of Discover were evidently still clacking away on typewriters in 1981.

People who read my LinkedIn summary understand that I'm a lifelong storyteller, and many remember the tale of how I got my first (and only) typewriter in kindergarten:

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

I covered the typewriter in a great gesture of renunciation.

I won't be surprised to find a manual typewriter in his office.

Christopher Sholes, who invented the first commercial typewriter in 1873, scattered the most commonly tapped letters in awkward, hard - to - reach spots so that adjacent keys would be less likely to jam.

And I see you found dad's typewriter in the attic??

When Harold and Kay come face to face, we learn that there's even more to their relationship than expected: Kay isn't just narrating Harold's life, her latest book is his life, and everything she writes about him comes true (the rules seem to dictate that she has to actually bang it out on her typewriter in order to make it happen).

By pounding on a typewriter in a montage.

In the same way that you can't offer professional advice to friends or family, because it's not worthwhile if they didn't pay for it from a strange professional, even many reader friends will be unimpressed or actually hostile toward your books — perhaps because it breaks their idea of authors being strange, artistic, ethereal beings hunched over a typewriter in a stone tower or something, I du n no.

A Japanese company is hoping to launch an e-ink portable typewriter in the US market, a model called Pomera.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

Maybe one day I'll go through the exercise of typing in all those poems (used a typewriter in those days), and then format them into something I can give away on Amazon.

in the last week one or two started to catch on, that if you're not pro-consumer your going to become as obsolete as an antiquated typewriter in the modern age!

Frankly, all I needed was a desk and a phone and a typewriter in those days.

Any law firm more than 5 years old probably has at least one typewriter in the office, «just in case.»

Not exact matches

This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors and Polaroid cameras.

In the short - term, some people will hang on to the notion of driving on their own of course, much as some holdouts who insist on typing on typewriters, or putting two spaces after a period.

The title refers to the distinction Thiel draws between transformative, «vertical» change — going from zero to one — and incremental, «horizontal» change — going from one to n. «If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress,» he explains in the book's first chapter.

Founded in the 1960s, BLI has tested copiers, typewriters, printers, fax machines, furnishings, and supplies.

Instead of typewriters, the several hundred employees involved in composing or disseminating letters, memos, documents, or reports use a typewritersized Apple II with built - in keyboard, a pair of add - on disk drives, a video monitor, and Apple Writer, the company's own disk - stored word processing software.

As Steve Jobs likes to point out, «In the past 15 years, there have been only a few tools that have actually increased the efficiency of the office worker — the IBM Selectric typewriters, the calculator, the Xerox copier, and the newer, advanced phone systems.

Word processing has gained a foothold in many businesses, but never before has a firm so completely done away with typewriters by executive fiat.

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).

In May of 1969, a 38 - year - old Warren Buffett sat down at a typewriter to inform his investors that he was closing his fund (then...

If an unkempt man pitching what looked like a souped - up typewriter walked into your office, would you have the wisdom to invest in his company?

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

Instead, as Richardson's pregnant housewife, she carried his typewriter home in the midst of a snowstorm; she wanted him to have it when he woke in case inspiration struck.

Yes, he's in there with a typewriter, writing romance novels... Oops, wrong again.

After a brief stint at Woman's College in North Carolina and a few years teaching «social ethics» at the Hartford Seminary, the relentless clacking of Berger's typewriter earned him a return ticket to the New School in 1963.

Hugh was struggling to support his growing family... And there was I, absolutely stuck in bucology, with the washing machine freezing at least once a week, the kitchen never above 55 degrees when the wind blew from the northwest, not able to write until after my little ones were in bed, by which time I was so tired that I often quite literally fell asleep with my head on the typewriter.»

Whether or not these thinkers create via the typewriter no doubt depends on many factors; but certainly it depends in part on the encouragement that established religious media are willing to give them — e.g., the invitation offered by Martin Marty in the article referred to above.

Here we had a minister in his study with some books, clearly including the Bible, an open window showing some symbols (like a factory) of the activity and confusion of modern society, and something like a typewriter to show the minister as an active scholar and not just a passive recipient.

Orwell next attacks what he calls «operators or false limbs» — the shoddy phrases that slip so easily from the tongue (or the typewriter) and fill such embarrassingly large blanks both in the thought processes and on paper that we actually grow rather fond of them.

In 1873, when Japan suppressed feudalism and was turning Westward and the Remington typewriter was invented, Legge returned from China to become professor of Chinese at Oxford.

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.

The Professor is at his desk, squatting on his swivel chair in a Yoga posture (asana), concentrating on a single point, the «0» key on his typewriter.

I have, therefore, girded up the loins of my typewriter and decided to breeze ahead — without having a first chapter on the ministry in the Bible, a second on the ministry in the early church, a third on ministry in the Middle Ages — and so on until finally we might get to the present.

Even the carpentry of the typewriter table upon which these words are being written (the top was made from an old and discarded wooden organ pipe from Miller Chapel of Princeton Seminary) was something I got into in terms of principles only after I had begun some «functions.»

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.

Some patients are so sensitive to the chemicals in ink that they can not read a newspaper until it has been aired, write with a pen or typewriter, or handle photocopies.

Opponents of the view that chance has any part to play in the order of nature tried to ridicule it in the famous analogy of the typewriting monkeys, asking if a million monkeys banging at random on a million typewriters could by chance produce one of Shakespeare's plays.

The man - in - the - street, the pew - sitter, the average layperson, shrinks in awe before the professional communicators who can reach millions through typewriter or tube.