Word: desk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trays gleamed from their places on the well-dusted shelves. Yes, the Master decided, Brown was a credit to the House. Of course, things had not been that way when he was an undergraduate, but then, hard times had come. The Master pulled a little gold star from his desk and glued it carefully in the space following Brown's name on the chart...
...last week, the people in TIME'S Education Department were desk-high in a familiar midwinter task: recording the results of another of TIME'S annual Current Affairs Contests for high-school and college students. The department was busy checking the winners in each school class and noting the choice in prizes. The student who scored highest in his class on the 105-question quiz had the choice of a book, a world globe or an inscribed bronze medal...
...picked Helms's home instead of the nearby one of Co-Host Paul Hoffman, because it is more secluded, and has a large, enclosed patio where Mamie and her mother could sunbathe in privacy.) On his first vacation day Ike was up early, worked an hour at his desk after break fast, then played 18 holes of golf at the Tamarisk Club with Hoffman, Helms, and Tamarisk's pro, famed Ben Hogan. (In his haste to get started, Ike put on his pullover sweater inside...
...tidy office in Appleton, Wis. one autumn day, a lean, brown-haired man sat down at his desk to face an irksome task. Nathan Marsh Pusey was writing his biography for the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard, and it was with much of the agony that H. M. Pulham Esq. went through ("a good deal like something on a tombstone . . . never did like writing . . .") that he dutifully recorded his life. He noted that he had three chil dren, was president of Appleton's Lawrence College (enrollment: 800), that "liberal education is my chief concern...
Sentimental Value. In Rochester, a jury acquitted William Aaron of a charge of illegal possession of a dangerous weapon after he testified that the blackjack police found in his desk was a memento given him by his mother 19 years before...