Complementary currencies are colorful slips of paper designed with images of local scenes or landmarks.

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The other two machines used colour-coded slips of paper and chips of wood to represent information.

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Registered reps who sat at desks and could see daylight wrote orders on slips of paper which went on the tracks.

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You get the pesky little slips of paper in January signaling that you have something to report on your tax return due April 15th.

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Telephone operators could still receive calls with no trouble, but they filled out information by hand on slips of paper, and runners took the paper to the appropriate dispatcher, located on the same floor, who radioed responders.

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Lewis Fry Richardson, an English meteorologist and mathematician, was ridiculed for his suggestion in 1922 that it might be possible to predict the weather using an army of thousands of mathematicians, sitting at desks in a vast arena and passing slips of paper to each other.

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Nurses and medical assistants used to communicate with doctors using boxes of paper slips.

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