Sentences with phrase «typewriters so»

I enjoyed this film about typewriters so much that I feel guilty writing this review on a computer instead of a Smith Corona.

His manuscript came from his typewriter so clean that he rarely needed to change a single word.

He always provided examples of sentences to improve my work, often punching the keys of his typewriter so I could take the examples with me and use them.

Miss Volker's arthritic hands no longer permit her to type the obituaries she writes for the Norvelt News: «When Mrs. Roosevelt hired me to be the chief nurse and medical examiner of this town I was given a typewriter so I could keep health records on the original two hundred and fifty families.

He can also call in the Stanbuster, which has a lamp and a giant pencil missile, and when it opens up, it has a typewriter so Stan can do a bit of writing.

Pressing buttons was once necessary to make physical processes happen, we applied force to keys on a typewriter so that they hammered against the paper.

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

What about if it was on PC now, these monkeys have probably moved on from typewriters, you'd think so anyway, I mean it is 2017, they'd still have to print things if that was the case, wonder where they'd get their A4 from, do they have it delivered, is one the monkeys a shopper monkey or do they order it online?

Is it really so extravagant that everyone have their very own vintage typewriter?

«Currently, some forms are still required to be typed, so we do still have typewriters, but the vast majority of Department forms are now digitized,» Commissioner Bill Bratton said at a state Senate hearing earlier this month.

If a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters might, in the fullness of time, produce the works of Shakespeare, so two dozen lonely schoolboys in their bedrooms might come up with this report.

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.

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.

Only about 60 per cent of laser printers have flaws on their drums, so the technique is not as universally applicable as imperfections in the type of a typewriter.

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.

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

All your details — like the letter to Santa in the typewriter — are so charming and creative.

I've found lots of antique and vintage treasures: cameras, typewriters, a microscope, French books, some really unique furniture, and so much more.

Everything in my bookcase is pretty neutral so adding any pop of color works well and not to mention I love the green with my gold typewriter.

Commercially speaking, it's a fair question to ask how many people under 40 will be drawn to a tale rooted in such quaint realities as manual typewriters, daily deadlines, midnight print runs and reporters sneaking down to the street to use a pay phone so they won't be overheard speaking with confidential sources.

This mise - en - scene is pure wunderkammer — so fixated on cramming every inch of the frame with knickknacks, piles of papers, obsolete technologies (production designer Maria Djurkovic must've been given one hell of a typewriter budget), and accumulated dust that the characters themselves begin to resemble rare, preserved specimens.

And so he sits in his writer's room, despairing in front of his manual typewriter.

But what was meta on the page became fetish in cinematic form, so the clackety - freakin» - clack of Briony's typewriter, like that infernal word — oh, that infernal word!

Later, when Lee becomes a writer in Interzone, the transformations become even more dense and metaphorical: typewriters, for example, become talking cockroaches or Mugwumps (a Burroughs beastie that the film works wonders with, in New York and Interzone alike), functioning variously as Ugly Spirits, muses, prophets, psychiatrists, lovers, friends, bosses, and drug dispensers, so that writing, sex, and drugs become virtually interchangeable.

His obsessive quest for accuracy prompted him to buy a dozen or so obsolete Dymo label makers to replicate the labels for the switches on the dashboard, and he went through three typewriters to re-create the tachometer correction table taped next to the steering wheel.

The E-Age may seem scary to those of us who remember when the most tech - heavy thing a writer had to do was change a typewriter ribbon, but it's one of the best times in history to be a writer — or a reader — so we need to learn to embrace the new technology.

But they had given me this typewriter to work on, so I just started writing stories.

I've been writing one way or another since I was ten and learned to use a typewriter at fifteen, so the keyboard feels natural to me.

A fan of mine enjoyed it so much he found a 1939 Underwood typewriter, completely restored it, and sent it to me as a gift.

When he saw the state of this typewriter ribbon (I had been using the old Remington portable to write up a number of medical reports) he dipped it in some oil he found dripping from the belly of a wounded generator hidden behind the hospital (which was, not so long ago, a Buddhist temple), and lo, by nightfall, it was set for another ten or fifteen pages.

So anytime something interesting would happen, I'd write 25 or so one - page - aerogram versions of it over the next few days, all on a clunky, museum - piece manual typewriteSo anytime something interesting would happen, I'd write 25 or so one - page - aerogram versions of it over the next few days, all on a clunky, museum - piece manual typewriteso one - page - aerogram versions of it over the next few days, all on a clunky, museum - piece manual typewriter.

Since then he's written getting on fifty books, almost all of them on a little old portable typewriter — one draft, to see what he's got, and what else he needs to know and so on; then a bit of research; then a complete rewrite, beginning to end; and then, if all's well, only a bit more tinkering.

Incidentally, these were the most popular items, and how many people entered to win: Book lamps (1363) Book pillows (1358) Antique typewriter (1623) Tea pot (1476) So if you're looking for good gifts for writers, those are safe bets.

Typewriter is not so much a game, but rather an atmospheric experience with a dark and gloomy feel.

Working across large - scale woodcuts, gouache paintings, so called «typewriter drawings» and ceramic sculptures, their uniquely carnivalesque visual language combines influences from traditional folk art and abstract art from the early 20th century European avant - garde.

And in the spirit of the surrealists, he switched around the usual sensations, so things soft, he made hard, or the other way around (a muslin - and plaster roast of beef, a saggy portable typewriter); while things smooth, he turned furry (ice - cream lollies made of fake - fur) and so on.

And so, I had to chuckle when I saw this piece, Last word on typewriter not written yet (Reuters, 11/8/07), where I learned that typewriters aren't yet obsolete.

So here's today's test question: Why would a law firm today need a typewriter?

So it was a big expense just to get a court case converted digitally, and of course at that time, even if there were some word processors around, judges were... I would say 95 % of all opinions were being typed on electric typewriters or handwritten.

According to Butterick, monospaced fonts were invented so that they could meet the mechanical needs of typewriters, not «to win beauty contests» (p. 81).

So the old practices from time immemorial are back in force: oral, written and the higher technology of typewriters.

2 For readers under the age of thirty or so, the «typewriter» was a mechanical device used for creating documents that pre-dated the computer and lacked some of the computer's more annoying characteristics, in particular the computer's facilitation of «cutting and pasting», which is undoubtedly one of the four horsemen of the modern apocalypse and which has cost many trees their lives and many lawyers and judges their eyesight.

Just 20 years or so ago, the only vehicle by which a resume could be driven was an electronic typewriter.

Where it was once so painstaking to create a neat resume — thanks to typewriter technology — it is now the easiest thing to do as you can easily delete and replace words... Read More»