Citations:Underwood

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English citations of Underwood

  • 1984, John Robert Colombo, "Haileybury [Ontario]", in Canadian Literary Landmarks, Hounslow Press, →ISBN, page 123 [1]:
    Here in an office above the bank he wrote the early volumes in the Hardy Boys series for the Stratemeyer Syndicate which supplied outlines. The first volume, The Tower Treasure, was written on a secondhand Underwood in a cabin on Lake Ramsey, near Sudbury [] .
  • 1994, Harry Turtledove, Woldwar: In the Balance, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 228 [2]:
    He opened the door with the frosted-glass window, gestured with the barrel of the rifle for them to precede him.
    In the outer office, a girl was clattering away on a noisy old Underwood. She stopped when the door opened.
  • a. 1997, Martha E. Stone, "My Destiny: Librarianship", in, 1997, Norman G. Kester, editor, Liberating Minds, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 81 [3]:
    The late 1960s and early 1970s were the quintuplicate carbon ALA interlibrary loan forms, and I cranked them out on a standard Underwood.
  • 2006, Molly Bruce Jacobs, Secret Girl, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 104 [4]:
    I scanned paragraphs of words I imagined some tight-lipped social worker punching out on a heavy black Underwood in her closet of an office almost two decades ago.
  • 2006, John Durand, Behind Enemy Lines, self-published, →ISBN, page 243 [5]:
    I fantasized life as a newspaper reporter, one of those guys in the movies who wears a hat with a press pass in the hatband and who gabbles impertinent questions. Back in the newsroom I'd smoke cigarettes as I pounded out my big story on a beat-up Underwood.