Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There a red-faced party worker slouched in his chair while the secretary briskly pecked out the latest publicity release. Sitting at another desk, the publicity man continued a telephone conversation, then rose to greet us. After rummaging about in a small file, he came up with an armful of press releases, packed them in an envelop, and, blotting out the Herter frank on the upper left corner, thrust it upon...
...until he left Harvard in 1912. I remember his as a brilliant teacher who gave polished lectures but also enjoyed informal meeting with his students in the rooms which he than occupied on the corner of Brattle and Hilliard Streets. When he left Cambridge I inherited the pulpit desk before which he was accustomed to stand when he wrote...
Miller was quite impressed with the philosopher's complete self-objectivity. When Santayana referred to his near blindness, he spoke as if his eyes were nothing more than "a typewriter on the desk or a chair in the corner of the room." This absence of any real egotism, this lack of self pity, permeates his whole philosophy: for, Miller said, "at the very heart of his philosophy is a tremendous detachment...
...home in Alexandria, Va. Short began his newspapering on the Jackson (Miss.) News, for almost two decades worked in the Washington bureau of the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun, in 1950 succeeded Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, who had died of a heart attack at his desk in the White House...
Buzzers and wires for each room are a new item in Holmes Hall. This will make receiving calls easier, if not pleasanter, than in other dorms, where girls must go to one central phone on each floor to communicate with the bell desk...