Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their evolution from the past. A specific illustration is the current discussion of the Supreme Court, the misinformation expressed and the lack of understanding shown by partisans on both sides. Yet the question is as pertinent and as closely related to any individual as the memorandum on his office desk or the test tube in his laboratory. The new plan attempts to give the student not only the ability to live in the past to some extent, but also better equipment to think and act in the present because of a larger perspective...
Startled at such a rapidly moving glacier, youthful Henry Bradford Washburn, veteran of many Alaskan expeditions and an authority on Alaskan glaciers, reached for a pencil and pad at his desk in the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration. After making quick calculations, he announced...
Competition for the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House begins tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the desk...
...Department of Labor's conciliator, James Francis Dewey, followed, his plump jowls sagging with fatigue. General Motors' Lawyer-Vice President John Thomas Smith emerged smiling. Newshawks trooped after them to the elevator, up to the presidential suite on the twelfth floor. Governor Murphy sat down at a desk and faced the press...
...begin, "Viewed Without Alarm" does not devote every page to interviews with Nazi bigwigs or Communist bureaucrats; nor does it attempt to count the number of guns in the Italian navy or the execution decrees in Stalin's desk drawer. It is a series of highly poignant snapshots of life on the Continent: conversations with young Russians, glimpses of a tavern in southern England, military maneuvers at Bad Nauheim. From these extremely natural sources uncovered through casual travel and occasional chatting Mr. Millis has distilled a convincing analysis of the various national points of view...