Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerable number of upperclassmen have reported that they did not notice the Department of Athletics desk at registration in Memorial Hall Friday and failed to pick up their booklets. Lunden urges them to report to the Department of Athletics Building at 60 Boylston St. as soon as possible so that they will be able to file applications for tickets to the Cornell game due Wednesday, Sept...
...rule of St. Ignatius, every Jesuit must spend four hours a day in prayer). By 9:15, with his iron bedstead curtained off, he transforms his bedroom into a study and tackles the day's work, sitting on a straight-backed chair behind a large wooden desk (another straight-backed chair for visitors and three shelves of books complete the office furnishings...
...annotated by the Assistant of the area involved before a final reply goes out. At 12:45, like every Jesuit throughout the world, Father Janssens does his 15-minute examination of conscience. After lunch, during which he sometimes waits on table for fellow Jesuits, he gets back to his desk. The day ends with a 10:15 visit to the chapel and a 10:30 lights-out. This schedule is relaxed slightly on weekends, when the general packs the omnipresent letters, plus a private secretary, into a diesel-engined black Mercedes, and heads for the Jesuit-owned Villa Cavallatti...
Twice-married Ted Cabot helps deliver the papers, mans the classified-ads desk at the lunch hour, frequently dons apron and relieves a typesetter, composes his editorials at a desk so cluttered with papers that he has to peck at a portable typewriter propped precariously on his lap. Says Cabot: "I've felt close to the people here and their problems. When I no longer had any ties back East, I just picked up and came...
Tainted Bait. In Denver, Virgil Wilson, 25, wandered into a U.S. Secret Service agency, lifted $10 in coins from a desk drawer, smiled pleasantly at unconcerned employees, was nabbed as he left, hauled off to jail and booked for possession of counterfeit money...