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Word: clerke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miss his rare, free evenings at home with Mrs. Douglas and daughter Sharman (a crashing belle of London society). They flew back to the U.S. for Christmas in New York with son Peter, down from Yale, and New Year's in Arizona with son James, a Tucson bank clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Manager Abroad | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...makes no provision for the fact that guaranteed government checks are the means for repayment and consequently rakes in four and one-half percent interest on advances that are admittedly riskproof. Any interest charge on such loans amounts to penalizing veterans for a mistake made by some anonymous clerk in the V.A.'s Boston office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Money Is The Object | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

...debt incurred in passing bad checks. Another woman used her room to entertain "boy friends" (one of whom threatened to knock the hotel detective's block off) and kept her five children playing in the lobby until midnight, to the distraction of the desk clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Charity & Good Cheer | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Lazarus has long held that the only way department stores can maintain their profits when the current boom slacks off is to make it possible for every clerk to serve more customers. To make this come true in Houston, he hired Manhattan Designer Raymond Loewy and associates to lay out a $12,000,000 store that would make selling more efficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foley's New Look | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Randall was dispatched to his post, the Hotel staff said, after Aldrich Durant '04, business manger of the University, had telephoned the day clerk that he feared students might clash with a scheduled AmVets picket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feared Student Picket, Protesting Hotel Policy, Fails to Materialize | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

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