Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type. Each spring, Margaret and her assistants go on talent-scouting trips to nearby women's colleges to interview interested applicants. The new trainees work the first three weeks as office girls, followed by a few weeks in such departments as the morgue, letters and the clip desk (clipping New York and out-of-town newspapers). The trainee then attends a four-week course, directed by an experienced TIME researcher, studying the rudiments of editorial research for TIME before she is assigned to a department...
Lamont Library is considering a new plan of roped-off waiting lines to case excessive crowding at desk three during rush hours. The plan will be used primarily on Saturday mornings, Phillip J. McNiff, head librarian of Lamont, announced yesterday...
...pool on the House tables?", wondered Charles S. Polinsky of Dunster House. when, makings his regular rounds one night, he stepped into the House pool room to find a game quietly in progress. At Eliot House, night men have reported two boys who openly inquired at the night desk, for the whereabouts of the billiards room. Misplaced high school boys, who are always made aware of the stiff arm of John Harvard extendehe stiff arm of John Harvard extended toward the nearest exit, are only one trouble for caretakers, however...
...Vote, vote, vote!" cried impatient Senators as New York's Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, wringing his hands, reproached Knowland for his stand. Twice, in his distress, Lehman wandered down the center aisle. Twice, flushed and angry, he was sent scooting back to his desk on points of order (Senate rules require speakers to remain by their desks). Muttered Lehman: "I shall be delighted to stand by my desk if that is the only argument that can be raised." Shouted other Senators: "Vote, vote, vote...
...tell you what life was like with the sixth grade," Miss MacDonald told her British audience. "They come charging in, all 14 of them, bursting with pep and dog and devil . . . Milly throws on my desk two battered and scrawled anonymous sheets. 'Where's your name, Milly? You should write your name on your [home] work before giving it in.' She borrows a pencil from Alice, her companion in crime. Alice has a clip machine; she clips the pages together ... so that I cannot open them. I get possession of this mangled piece of work, have...