Search Details

Word: printer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...honor, if not pleasure, of being allowed to stand next to the Queen, the famously haughty Marie-Antoinette, as she played at the gambling tables. Alone among the throng at Versailles, she seemed to have little appreciation for the man who, she had been told, had once been "a printer's foreman." As she noted dismissively, a man of that background would never have been able to rise so high in Europe. Franklin would have proudly agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Ben's 7 Great Virtues | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...such example involved a customer who asked the young printer to publish a piece in the Gazette that Franklin found "scurrilous and defamatory." In his effort to decide whether he should take the customer's money even though it violated his principles, Franklin subjected himself to the following test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Ben's 7 Great Virtues | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...Thank God the floors are slanted anyway, the water poured in the right direction,” Pemberton said, as Dickinson turned on her printer which sat on the floor. The machine whirred back to life effortlessly...

Author: By Alexander J. Finerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sprinkler Soaks Stoughton Room | 5/1/2003 | See Source »

...check their e-mail. Sigh. My love affair with computers actually reached its peak circa 1990, with my Apple IIGS. Late at night, I pine away for the exhilaration of traversing the Oregon Trail or tracking Carmen Sandiego, of creating Print Shop greeting cards on my dot-matrix printer or of using floppy disks that are actually floppy. My parents generously bestowed upon me a flat-screen monitor for my Dell, but despite its exquisite beauty and space-saving qualities, it’s really just a facelift masking an aging starlet who has seen one too many term papers...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Technostalgia | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

Dancer-choreographer Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 did not have to suffer through printer jams and paper shortages to finish her thesis—instead, she brought a little bit of Brazilian culture and samba to the Loeb Experimental (Ex) Theater...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dancing As More Than a Hobby | 3/4/2003 | See Source »

Previous | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next