Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his free time as an 18-year-old clerk in a Sears, Roebuck store in Gardner, Mass., Peter Roberts invented a quick-release ratchet wrench that enabled a mechanic to change sockets with one hand. At his boss's suggestion, Roberts offered his invention to Sears. Executives told him that his wrench probably would not sell well and that patents were pending for similar tools. But Sears eventually bought the rights to Roberts' wrench...
...Japanese Woman's Right to Equal Employment, Catherine Brown, law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals, Pound...
...turned out that the Rockefellers had something else in mind--Japan, for instance. This nation will be the topic of two lectures scheduled for tomorrow. At 12:45 p.m., Catherine Brown, a 1978 graduate of Harvard Law and currently a clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals, will talk about "The Japanese Woman's Right to Equal Employment," in Pound...
...these officials live by deceit, they are slaves of self-deception. Trying to identify the incognito inspector, they settle on a newcomer at the local hotel who has overdrawn his credit and is foppish, imperious and curious. Actually, Ivan Alexandrovich Khlestakov (Max Wright) is a petty clerk who has gone broke gambling. When the mayor approaches him, Khlestakov assumes that he is about to be thrown into jail. As the mutual misconceptions multiply, the fun flies like...
...hospital, he hit a lucky streak betting on baseball. The money allowed him to quit his night bank job and devote more time to writing. His other job, as a G55 clerk administrator at the Army Reserve unit at the 42nd Street Armory, ended in 1962 when he resigned after the department was plowed by scandal and a fellow worker was sent to jail for taking bribes. The episode is similar to the far more incriminating and candid one described in Fools...