Sentences with phrase «typewriters when»

Computers were just replacing typewriters when I first began practicing law.

It would be like someone investing in typewriters when the world was embracing computers, or video tapes as DVD became the home movie standard format.

I was lucky enough to have access to electric typewriters when I went to school... the year before me had to use the manual ones.

Probably when I got my typewriter when I was 7.

When Pelegrin started her career in real estate in 2005 after working in a law firm, she recalled, someone pointed her to a typewriter when she needed to create some labels for files.

The thought of banging along on a typewriter when a computer makes it so much easier made me grin.

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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.

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.»

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.

There's the typewriter method (moving horizontally across the cob, then making a loud «DING» sound when you hit the end).

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.

When I was very young I pictured myself writing in front of a beautiful view with endless cups of coffee next to me, rather like Colin Firth's character in Love Actually, but without the typewriter.

And she was pleasantly surprised when the president, talking about American inventions, mentioned the Remington typewriter.

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).

In 1980, the second momentous event happens when the frustrated man pulls a blank sheet of paper out of his typewriter and confesses to writer's block.

When his back pains allow, he sits up in a hard - backed chair and attacks his typewriter with furious energy, cigarettes and alcohol at the ready to aid the creative process.

When her father (Jim Beaver) presents her with a resplendent foundation pen as a preemptive congratulations, she requests to employ his typewriter instead.

When one thinks about it, being able to control a person by conveying their actions into a typewriter is rather dark.

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Calvin seems to find the answer to all of his problems when a young woman comes to him in a dream, stirring his imagination and thrusting him to write about it at his old - fashioned typewriter.

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.

Antoine even steals a typewriter from his father's workplace, but is caught returning it when he's unable to pawn it without a receipt.

The twice - Oscar - winning actor, filmmaker, novelist, activist, typewriter collector and star of at least one of your favourite childhood movies («Dragnet» for me) is one of Hollywood's good guys — at a time when the place could do with a few more of them.

As a suggestion: when making books this way I highlight individual sentences and use the custom animation «colour typewriter» on each one.

We usually keep around 15 words on the wall and when I take them down I place them in my «Typing Center» where I have my old electric typewriter.

When Georgia leaders wrote a groundbreaking formula in 1985 to change the way the state subsidizes public schools, most students were writing term papers on typewriters and only dreamed of using a «videophone,» like the one in the futuristic cartoon show called «The Jetsons.»

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.

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Remember when push - button phones, electric typewriters, even floppy disks were the next big thing?

I can see the day when the word «publisher» will be like typewriter: obsolete.

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.

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.

When she finally rejoins her parents, her welcome gift is a Smith Corona typewriter.

I've been writing novels since I was 11 years old when one of my parents brought home an old - fashioned typewriter and set it in front of me.

The iconoclastic, idiosyncratic, garrulous, shy, outgoing, charming or grouchy writers working at home, courageously facing the blank screen or typewriter paper or yellow pad, getting up early before work or when the kids are still sleeping, up in the attic, down in the basement — you writers now have the upper hand.

When Theodore H. White wrote his Making of the President series of campaign books, beginning with the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960, reporters were hauling portable typewriters along the campaign trail and stuffing their pockets with dimes to call in stories from pay phones.

All this went back to when everyone still wrote on typewriters.

Think Typewriter — limit the styles that you add and don't worry about how the text looks in your Word file — the magic of design comes when formatting and applying the styles you want in the CSS..

When I was thirteen years old, I discovered my Mom's old Underwood typewriter and started using that to produce my tales.

Swarm even includes an option for triggering a sound whenever a key is pressed, thus for reasons beyond me you could have a a weird laser beam noise or typewriter click play when you type.

- includes elements from the movies, spin - off shows and comics - over 100 new characters in addition to returning heroes and villains from the last Lego Marvel game - hubs include Barton farm from Age of Ultron - play the climactic Battle for New York - Hulk can now charge up his jump - Hawkeye now has more trick arrows - each character portrait now includes a meter on the rim - executing a finishing move on an enemy takes up about one - third of your power - once filled, you can trigger a team - up move that wipes out many of the enemies in the vicinity - each duo has two different moves, depending on who triggered - when playing as Iron Man, switching up suits pulls players into the suit - each armor set has a different animation - the Mark I calls in Stan Lee to weld it on - the Mark V entombis Tony from its portable briefcase storage - Stanbuster suit includes a typewriter, lamp, and pencil cannon

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.

All text is still accompanied by an obnoxious typewriter sound with every letter hit and ceases to quiet down when trying to skip through dialogue.

When all the pieces are recovered and the typewriter repaired, Mario is able to type the phrase correctly and Destroy Bowser's castle.

When one comes to a wrapped typewriter and telephone books from Christo, one has to remember that Man Ray left his bulkier wrapping as The Riddle / The Rebus / The Enigma.

Among Rauschenberg's early landmarks are his «Erased de Kooning Drawing» (1953) and «Automobile Tire Print» (1953), the work was made when the artist instructed composer John Cage to drive his car through a pool of paint and then across 20 sheets of typewriter paper.

On another occasion, Olivetti used a Piacentino sculpture to fill a void at a trade show when its latest typewriter wasn't finished in rime.

When Marden met Smith, she was a waif poet who used to come to his studio to use his typewriter — an Olivetti — because she thought it improved the quality of the rock criticism she was writing for Creem and Rolling Stone.»

Let's not get stuck with typewriter - like technology when the world can move on.

When you sit at your typewriter writing books, it is all in your imagination, there isn't even that illusion.