Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran of three years service and still under 26. I saw 2½ years service overseas . . . This may not seem like a long time to General Hershey sitting behind a desk in Washington...
...TIME file, consisting of our U.S. editions only, was complete through the middle of August. It was well-thumbed. On a desk in the room lay a copy of the May 29 issue with IndoChina's Bao Dai, emperor of Vietnam, on the cover. Near it was a copy of the Aug. 7 Pacific* edition (Formosa's Governor K. C. Wu on the cover) stamped "U.S. Diplomatic Service...
...seat of Capp Enterprises, a firm devoted to the vastly remunerative business of commercializing the byproducts of Capp's comic strips. This odd institution's headquarters on East 45th Street (it also has a branch office in Montreal) is presided over by brother Jerry and has a desk for brother Elliot, who also runs a publishing firm and writes the action for Abbie & Slats, a strip which Capp originally founded...
Wisely & Well. The president of Ivy ("Toddy" to his wife, played by Mrs. Colman) is, of course, a harassed man, whose desk is always littered with reports, and whose days are filled with faculty teas, meetings of the Fiscal Committee of the Governing Board, and invitations to make speeches. Like his fellow presidents, Dr. Hall has a good deal of trustee trouble, especially with the chairman of the board who invariably wants to "throw the book" at someone ("He wouldn't know any other use for a book," says Hall). He is bothered by his budget ("Our sinking fund...
Radcliffe Student, Council decided at its meeting Monday to clamp down on students failing to take out closed reserved books they have signed for. Twenty-two books were left unclaimed at the desk Saturday, depriving other students of the use of these books...