Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Starting with only two officers and one clerk in a small room today's Army Transport Command totals over 85,000 officers and men." In a single day, recently, A.T.C. delivered 390 tons of material by air to one theater of operations...
Abraham Lincoln, a 43-year-old London clerk who swore that his great-uncle was the original, got nine months at hard labor for receiving stolen property...
Counter Point. In Omaha, Neb., Post Office Clerk Neil Chapman braced himself for the remarks of a lady who approached him with one of the office's pens. She wanted the pen point's name & number because it wrote so well...
...some it was a joy; some rolled in new wealth, splashed happily among unaccustomed delights. For many more it was plain tragedy; starvation was an ever-present possibility. The bank clerk, fingering his last western suit and wondering how many thousands of Chinese dollars he could get for it, was little better off than the university professor wondering whether he should abandon his career, with its paltry fixed salary, for a bank clerk's job where at least there was some attempt to hoist wages as the cost of living soared. In this atmosphere, U.S. Army men in China...
...large bedroom of St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, a thin-haired little man who looks like a timid clerk last week shot com mands at eight tired businessmen. "Little Bill" Miller, probably the country's foremost relaxation expert, was holding class-at $100 a head for six one-hour lessons...