Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earn as much as $800 to $1,000 a year, depending upon the size of the school and how hard they work. Says Roger Chapin of Middlebury College: "The hunting rifle and shotgun hanging on the wall in my room, the skis in the corner, the camera in my desk drawer and a canoe are all byproducts of TIME sales." When summer vacation at the University of Minnesota began last year, says our subscription agent Merrill Cragun, "I bought a convertible and took my first jaunt to the East Coast as a result of selling TIME." TIME commissions plus scholarships...
...Sorbonne, the Collège de France, the Observatory, and then, after 6, retire to the library to study some more. After a stint of teaching, he began writing textbooks on Latin, Greek, and French grammar, finally hit upon the idea of a dictionary-encyclopedia. Crouched behind his desk, he worked 16 hours a day, in 1865 issued his first 40-page weekly installment. "Subscribe," said he. "or do not subscribe. Speak of me or do not speak of me. I am ready and am taking the road. Follow me who will...
...Patterson the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra combined spirit and inaccuracy to sound like a typical group of musical amateurs. The strings often played out of tune in both the Messiah and Corelli's Christmas Concerto. Vigorously conducted by Michael Greenebaum '55, the concerto showed off Pierian's excellent first desk players, but they were hampered by the in-accuracies of those behind them...
According to a Cambridge desk sergeant, patrolmen were out on the streets last night looking for the assailant. They reported that the Belmont man was able to give only a brief description of the attacker. The police added that the man was not in a dangerous condition...
...Eisenhower Republicans, but was brought back into line by Ike." A few newsmen refused to comment altogether. Times Reporter Clayton Knowles suddenly remembered that he had overlooked one top Washington reporter. Looking through the window that separates him from Bureau Chief Reston, Knowles dialed a number on his desk telephone, then said into the phone: "Mr. Reston, this is the New York Times, and we are conducting a survey . . . " Said Reston, who had personally opposed polling correspondents during the campaign* because he thought such polls undermined public confidence in the press: "I'm sorry...