Sentences with word «wastepaper»

In 1873 the president of the Philological Society of London declared that linguists «shall do more by tracing the historical growth of one single work - a-day tongue, than by filling wastepaper baskets with reams of paper covered with speculations on the origin of all tongues.»

You send in a cover letter that talks of how wonderful you are as a candidate without anything significantly backing up your claims, both your resume and cover letter find permanent homes in wastepaper bins.

Besides, no book about the Bible is worth its weight in wastepaper if it does not lead one to read the Bible for himself.

Thermal insulation made from recycled newspaper or other wastepaper; often treated with borates for fire and insect protection.

About half the material in his children's record is familiar («I asked my mother for 50 cents, / To see the elephant jump the fence») but the remainder is often electrifying: a combination of homemade Mother Goose rhymes and wild jungle rhythms, with Negro and Puerto Rican children beating on homemade drums, wooden benches and metal wastepaper baskets.

It is pieced together from letters, musical scores, photographs, diary entries, fragments of movie scripts, newspaper entries, maps, telegrams, ship boarding passes, menus, pages torn from books and crumpled notes rescued from wastepaper cans and reassembled with, of course, missing lines.

Manufactured by Versa Press on acid - free 30 percent postconsumer wastepaper.

«(2014) sculpture at the centre of the Jupiter Woods space, where a black and blue mesh wastepaper basket filled with empty black and blue Monster Energy Absolutely Zero cans respond to Cory Arcangel «s instructions to Ryan Gander on recreating one of his own sculptures called «To Protect Space» (2011).

The precisely crafted wastepaper constructions of Robert Nickle come to mind, as do early tarpaulin works by Chicago - trained Holt Quentel and, exemplary of this tradition, Julia Fish's ongoing translation of the city's stray places into abstract paintings of intense and dignified beauty.

Jim Meyer, a partner at Tuckers Solicitors and London Criminal Courts Solicitors» Association committee member, says the scheme marks the LSC's «continued determination to commit quality publicly - funded criminal defence services to the proverbial wastepaper bin».

Between that and the glossy gunmetal «Space Gray» finish, it does indeed look like some sort of futuristic wastepaper basket.

Our range of storage furniture & shelving units includes trunks in painted wood and rattan that work in the bedroom or living room; rattan boxes of all shapes and sizes, some designed to slot neatly into our shelving units; stylish wastepaper bins, and a complete range of desk accessories.

Get inspired by rush - weave and make your own smart side table using two FNISS Ikea wastepaper bins.

Two companies developing an improved type of cellulose insulationThermal insulation made from recycled newspaper or other wastepaper; often treated with borates for fire and insect protection.

The metal finish of the stool, lamp and wastepaper basket add touches of on - trend industrial style.

Smart filing trays and clever organisers are a desk - top must to keep paperwork in check, and don't forget to include an adjustable desk lamp and wastepaper bin.

The team found that while underhand throws are best for reaching a target close by and above the shoulder, overhand throws are more accurate for targets below the shoulder — like a wastepaper basket — and are more forgiving to errors over long distances.

And yet he avoids them all, here sidling carefully between a wastepaper basket and the wall, there going around a camera tripod, all without knowing he has made any special maneuvers.

Unfortunately for many writers who believe that the publishing houses are the only way, their manuscripts will inevitably wind up in an editor's wastepaper basket, or won't even get looked at.

Sources report that she watched with mild contempt as it spiralled lazily into a wastepaper bin filled with 17 identical others.

He spent the final years of his life continuing to produce «Achromes», experimenting with new materials including chemically altered cotton (which changed color with fluctuations in temperature), kaolin - covered dinner rolls, rocks, and wastepaper.

Most landfill content is organic matter: food scraps, yard trimmings, junk wood, wastepaper.

I'm a big trashcan user — the Mac makes it easy with that wastepaper basket icon that's an exact copy of my own round file at home.

1992) at p. 193), a «fire ignited in a wastepaper basket is... caused not only by the dropping of a lighted match, but also by the presence of combustible material and oxygen, a failure of the cleaner to empty the basket and so forth».

By sending everyone a one - size - fits - all resume, you will definitely appeal to the lowest common denominator — the wastepaper basket.

The first consideration one has to keep in mind when writing a legal administrator resume is how to keep it out of the wastepaper basket.

One of the most common reasons for your resume to go into the wastepaper bin is because it is not an updated one.

That includes mopping, brushing, sweeping and dusting duties along with ensuring that windows are washed, and wastepaper baskets... Read More»

• Sweep and mop surfaces in rooms, kitchens and hallways and ensure that every nook and cranny is covered • Clean bathrooms by washing and disinfecting them and replenish supplies such as shampoo, soap and towels • Empty wastepaper baskets and ensure that waste disposal is carried out properly • Clean kitchen counters and equipment such as fridges and microwaves and perform preventative maintenance on them

I've seen them topped with a round of wood and used as a side table, and it looks like the one in the photo below is being used as a wastepaper basket:

Place the basket over a wastepaper bin to hold it securely in place while you work.

Accessorise with vintage stationery and fun finishing touches, from wooden pencils, rulers and exercise books to leather satchel, task lamp and wastepaper basket.