Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incumbent Chaucerian, has just died. Now Professor X, having heard through a friend that the position is open, and having discreetly let it be known that he is interested, gets a request for copies of his articles. He dutifully sends them to the department chairman, on whose desk they sit unread, until the appointment is made. Meanwhile, the department chairman is inquiring among his friends at X's university about the young man's research "promise." Will he be "productive...
...first glance, this is rather strange, since evidence about the quality of X's scholarship is on his desk. The problem is that the chairman has neither the competence nor the interest to evaluate X's articles. Indeed, if anyone on the faculty were acquainted with X's work, the field would be "covered," and X would be superfluous...
...bill seemed as good as law when it went to the desk of Republican Governor George Dewey Clyde, 60, a good Mormon who had never been known to raise his voice loudly about anything. But this time George Clyde spoke up, sent the Sunday closing bill back to the legislature with a surprising, stinging veto message. Reasons for the veto: i) the bill was "inequitable" to small merchants; 2) through it. big merchants were seeking "to regulate competition"; 3) Utah's rich seven-day-a-week copper mines, not specifically exempted from Sunday closing, might be "seriously affected...
...This was clearly a concession to Russia's insistence that reunification of Germany must be negotiated directly between the West German government and East Germany's Communist bosses. And last week Eleanor Dulles, sister of John Foster and an official of the State Department's "German Desk," pointedly stated in a Wisconsin speech that "new plans for the relations of the two parts of Germany and Berlin" might be considered by the West if the Communists "wish to relax somewhat the rigors of the regime in East Germany...
...past quarter-century. By 1941, after covering the blitz in Britain, Edward Roscoe Murrow was prestigious enough to be an intimate of F.D.R., and by 1946 (it took a bit more doing), important enough to be a vice president of CBS. But within two years he had abandoned his desk and paper-shuffling, and by 1951 was spending most of his energy on See It Now, the high-cost (up to $100,000 per show) documentary which, on subjects from Nasser to segregation, came as close as TV ever had to imaginative journalism...