Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long mahogany bench sat the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.* From the red velour hangings behind the bench to the great doors at the back of the room, every seat was filled. Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S., picked up a printed document from his desk and began to read in a firm, clear voice...
...little Vietnamese official looked sadly across his desk in Hanoi's city hall. "The poor man will stay, and the rich man will go," he said. "I am neither, but I am a nationalist, and I therefore must go-and I have lived here all my life." The 300-lb. French restaurateur popped an olive into his mouth: "I came to Hanoi in 1945 as a sergeant-cook. I now have $30,000 invested in my restaurant, and I'm staying until I have to leave." Cried the barefoot refugee in a three-room house where 23 people...
Died. Bertie Charles ("B.C.") Forbes, 73, Scottish-born onetime Hearst financial editor and columnist 'who started his own semimonthly business magazine, Forbes (circ. 128,623), in 1917; of a heart attack; at his desk in his Manhattan office. A prolific chronicler of tycoons' careers-e.g., Andrew Carnegie, James B. Duke, John D. Rockefeller-B.C. strove to "humanize" Big Business, larded his Forbes columns with hearty aphorisms. Examples: "Rest? Yes. Rust? No! . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down . . . Everything may not be for the best, but let's make the best...
...oldest buildings on campus, behind a heavy wooden door with a sign saying, "President's Office, Walk in Without Knocking," with his feet on the desk, sits the man who is chiefly concerned with these and other problems about Bard's future.--James Case, Bard's president. On his desk are several books, but one especially--"Causes of Public Unrest in Education" arrests the visitors eye and seems in a sense to be a reflection of Bard College...
...Behind a desk littered with carbon copies of the week-end's dictation, Dean Bender's secretary answered calls. "Yes," she said, "I sympathize with you, but . . ." Then she asked the parent to call back in a day, when one of the admissions men would be glad to speak with her. Yesterday, however, after two months of overtime work, the committee took its first...