Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Employers have tried wanly to check their work losses by various stratagems-by serving coffee at desks and from pushcarts at factory benches, by setting aside definite coffee periods in the hope that, at least part of the morning, everybody will be at his desk. They find what solace they can in surveys showing that workers are more alert and make fewer mistakes after they get back to work. But for the habit itself, no cure seems to be in sight. In fact, thousands of office workers are taking more & more to the custom of popping...
...aides at the Pentagon had no easier job than his officers in Europe. He would pound the desk with rage when someone gave him an evasive answer. Asked what it was like to work for Ridgway, an aide said, "Tense." "Ridgway tense?" "No," said the officer, "we're tense...
...Hardie sat down last week at his desk in his government corporation's shiny new London office, his bureaucratic machinery was not even in low gear. Said one of his assistants: "We're still busy trying to acquire secretaries and typewriters. Even our tea is hardly organized yet, and it's beastly stuff when it does arrive-absolute slop...
Consolidation, according to its backers would bring order out of chaos, save money, and cut in half the number of steps separating scholars from the public file and charging desk. The proposal was first made in 1949 by Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library...
Meanwhile, the Stillman front desk reported last night that the infirmary's enrollment had "declined slightly" during...