Carriage Return

A carriage return sometimes known as a cartridge return (often shortened to CR or return) is a control character, or mechanism, used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text.

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    That the townspeople might better see him, the President was persuaded to leave his carriage by the inducement that the ladies wished to get a look at him. ‘By Gad,’ he repied, ‘I’d like to see your ladies,’ and alighted.
    —For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)