Word: desk
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Upon entering the bureau office in Gannett House, the prospective client gave her name and address to the secretary at the reception desk. The secretary requested the 25-cent registration fee, which each client pays if able. Then the woman was introduced to one of the students on duty that day, and was shown to a conference room for the initial consultation session...
Died. Dr. Eugene Beverly Ferris Jr., 52, medical director of the American Heart Association, profuse, scholarly writer of some 150 technical papers on the heart and related fields; of a heart attack, at his desk in the AHA's office; in Manhattan...
...Davies was elected municipal judge (at $135 a month) in Grand Forks; he served two terms and retired in 1940 because "I didn't want to get tagged with the title of police-court judge." He entered the Army as a lieutenant in 1942, held down various Stateside desk jobs for four years, emerged as a lieutenant colonel ("That shows the Army wasn't very fussy about the way it promoted people"). Returning to North Dakota, he built a prosperous general practice, worked hard for every civic drive and organization in sight (Elks, Knights of Columbus, American Legion...
...hand is not shaking. I am not weeping or hiding under my desk. I am cheerful and alert. I face life with optimism. This agency will go on." Such was the almost joyful reaction of Executive Vice President Charles Brower of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn last week as he announced the loss of Revlon, Inc.'s $8,000,000 account...
Lieut. Hillman Robbins Jr., 25, is a ground-bound Air Force desk jockey who suffers variously from low blood pressure, an allergy to early-morning reveille and an exasperating habit of lunging at his tee shots and turning his head on putts. A crack amateur golfer, Robbins gains a kind of circular compensation from his failings on the course: fouled-up shots beef up his blood pressure, his energy expands and his game improves accordingly...