Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lighting effects on anyone sitting in the King's chair. At precisely the appointed hour the King entered through his private door. He shook hands, chatted in English and French with the photographers, showed that he knew the rudiments of color photography. Then he sat down at his desk. In three minutes with His Majesty at his desk, Irwin & Langen made the final nice adjustments of their equipment, set their camera for an exposure of 1 50th second and shot. The flash bulbs went off with a loud explosion and a blinding flash-they were made for 110 volts...
Patterned along the lines of a public relations counsels, the man in this new post would have no sinecure job. Suppose a student turns in a card at the delivery desk for a book on a particular phase of Economics. After a reasonable interval, he is politely informed that the book is out. Unhappily, he slouches off, much inclined to give full credence to the worst rumors about Widener's indifference. But here is where the contact man's duties begin. To his centrally located desk the student plods and unfolds his troubles. The contact man is interested; he looks...
...three, about half of the average $10 charge going to the paper which secures the original insertion. "Death Notice" Burns gets 80% of all original insertions because each morning he makes a shoptalk round of funeral parlors, calls morticians by their first names, after lunch goes to his Record desk where undertakers telephone a steady stream of death notices. Each evening he carefully follows every notice into the printed page, then trollies home at 1:15 a.m., sits up half-an-hour with a cigar for a final paternal check on the accuracy of the Record's death notice...
Setting as a goal an attendance of 340, Marvin said that tickets would be for sale all this week at a desk in the lobby of the Union. Although admitting that only 15 had been sold so far, he expressed the belief that "any dance event involving such great numbers of students could not help but be a success...
...test was made last Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 by sending a dozen call-slips to various parts of the library, it was found that no book came within twelve minutes, one was returned within thirteen, and the rest required eighteen. We believe such experiences are common at the delivery desk...