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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Memorable Sentences Associated with the Typewriter, a) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party; b) qwerty yuiop; c) Miss Hunkle, please come in, shut the door and take a letter...
...inventor, Christopher Latham Sholes, sold to E. Remington & Sons, a manufacturer of firearms. There is always something heroically decisive about a character's plunking himself down before a typewriter in a movie. The machine itself becomes an instrument of integrity, which may be one of the things we miss when it finally disappears...
Pleasant as all this may be to record, it does not add up to much. Mainly one will miss the manual machine simply because it has been around so long. We take unexpressed comfort from the sight of familiar objects, superannuated or not, tending to regret their absence even when we no longer require their presence. Then, too, we will miss the sound, the clackbop from the house next door that signaled the Great American Novel in progress, or the Great American Last-Minute Term Paper. Writers will miss their old machines greatly, even as they now flirt pantingly with...
...mainstay of Brown social life is the campus snack bar system. Students who miss meals during the day can grab a bite to eat at places like "the Gate" and "the Ivy Room." Each spot has a different decor and undergraduates can use their meal 'credit', kept track of by a computerized system, to down some pizza or slurp a frappe...
...best lacrosse in recent history. And the laxwomen, who, like Dartmouth, dropped their only Ivy game to Princeton, have virtually recovered from the rash of injuries which sidelined almost half the team earlier this year. Only Lili Pew, who is recovering from torn ligaments in her right knee, will miss the game for the Crimson...