Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desk editor, last night sent out a CRIMSON reporter to interview Bernard De Voto '18, one of the more prominent younger writers of today. Before the evening had grown old the reporter learned some interesting things about the gentlemen of the press, the which spoiled his entire evening...
...plans for the project call for the removing of the present book stacks on the second floor of the present structure and for the converting of this entire floor into a single reading room, with the distribution desk in the center...
Relations Counsel Snell, in a chintz and mahogany suite, giving a party for the newspaper boys and abusing his employer. At the end of the play, he is back again in the city room with his feet on a desk and his snout in a telephone. A news rag, one gathers, is as inescapable as a winding sheet; the adherents of the prying profession hate their task but they cannot leave...
...days schoolmasters kept terrible watch over their students when examination days came to pass. Should a student peer too curiously at his shirt cuff, he would be summoned to the master's desk. In the old days, masters often spanked...
Author Frankl does not prove that "simplicity" does match modern life. Nor does he recognize that his "simplicity" is rather the affectation of simplicity-witness a creation entitled "lady's whimsical desk built like a puzzle...