Word: tray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...century. But he quit Collier's and came back to The Herald at $18 a week on a hunch. Soon after that The Herald, in new hands, was shy an editor. Vandenberg hung up his hat in the editor's office, brushed his cigar ashes in the editor's tray and announced himself as the new boss. The owner let him stay as a penalty for his impertinence; but in about three jerks of a lamb's tail he had the weakling Herald on a money-making basis...
...typewriter is entirely different from machines we are accustomed to see. It consists of a tray of about 500 Chinese characters, a printed sheet or indicator showing the position of the various characters in the tray, a pointer, and the customary platen mechanism. The pointer is attached by a system of levers to the type tray; and when the former is brought over a desired character on the indicator, the corresponding letter on the type tray is brought beneath a small receptacle open at the bottom, but covered at the top by a rubber ball. A lever is pressed, suction...
...Vagabond was well supplied with good will in fact, so thorough going was his genial spirit that it included even Uncle Albert who last year donated a smoking stand in the shape of a purple camel with an ash tray on each hump and a stack of matches in each car. The result of his visit to the pedlars and pushcarts of the metropolis across the Charles was tremendously successful. For the Vagabond's wood-closet is now piled high with assorted containers of everything from velocipedes and sewing machines to a porcelain statuette of Buddha for Aunt Agatha...
...volume contains a long and able introduction by Herbert Asbury,? and many venerable illustrations. One of these shows a lady upsetting a waiter's tray with her dainty toe; the caption is: "Indignant Young Lady Refusing to Take a Drink. This occurred...
Harvard apparently is not particularly worried this year about the eating problem. It may be that last spring's uprising was only a momentary gesture of those who were soon glad to return to tray-carrying three times a day. For a time it seemed that the tyranny of the cafeterias was to be ended; but the pledge to eat in the promised dining hall met with a disappointing number of signers. There was no specific objection to the food in the Freshman Halls, which was of the quality promised in the new University eating-place; there was simply antipathy...