Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, and narrative-wise U.S. Attorney Harold Kennedy filled in the gaps. On trial were Herman Lang, accused of selling details of the design of the bombsight, shadowy Frederick Joubert Duquesne, blond Axel Wheeler-Hill, brother of Bundster James Wheeler-Hill, as well as a baker, a shipping clerk, a book salesman, a photographer, a musician, a seaman, a machinist...
Jarvis Catoe had been a one-man crime wave. He had caused a police shake-up in Washington and a Congressional investigation. That was after he murdered Jessie Elizabeth Strieff, a Government clerk. Jarvis gently told the police about that...
...several army girls in uniform, wearing boots, dark-blue skirts and the army blouse. They were as far forward as advanced divisional headquarters. . . . One was a medical, one was a telegraphist, another was a motor driver, another was a clerk with an air force unit...
...store clerk who was only 70% accurate in making change would soon be fired. Concluding that a 70% passing mark is equally absurd in school arithmetic, "cooperative" classes in New York City high schools-whose students attend classes and work at outside jobs in alternate weeks-have made 100% the passing mark in arithmetic tests. Last week the assistant director of these classes reported that 79% of her pupils flunked...
Mail. In Syracuse, N.Y., a veteran postal clerk in charge of the "dead letter office" retired; friends who wanted to present him with a gift found he had gone leaving no forwarding address...