Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn-of-the-century Geographic was a stodgy scientific journal, written with old-fashioned portentousness, and floundering in debt. Grosvenor stuck to the pattern for six years. One day in 1905, a packet of photographs from Tibet landed on his desk. Grosvenor was fascinated by the rugged Tibetan scenery and the Dalai Lama's palace. On an impulse, he spread the pictures across eleven pages. The issue created a sensation: almost by accident, Grosvenor had discovered how to make geography popular...
...Sparks. He had a memorable meeting with another prominent American last week. After a formal exchange on the subject of Israel with the President of the U.S., Rabbi Herzog opened his Bible and began reading (in Hebrew) the 126th Psalm. Meanwhile, Harry Truman reached into his desk for his mother's old Bible and flipped the pages to the same place. When the rabbi had finished, the President read in English: "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing...
...nosed man with a humorously etched face, wearing crepe-soled sport shoes and a rumpled brown suit, got out of the plane which had flown him from Washington to New York. He sped by car to 2 Park Avenue, headquarters for the U.S. delegation to U.N. There at his desk he wrote a letter. He was Dr. Philip Jessup, onetime college professor and the State Department's top negotiator. He gave the letter to an aide, Albert Bender, to deliver to Yakov Malik, of the Russian U.N. delegation...
Unlike their more sophisticated sisters on the women's fashion magazines, the staffers at Seventeen take off their hats in the office. But they joke that whenever a staffer gets a raise or a promotion, she can wear her hat for a few minutes at her desk before she hangs it up. Last week, Executive Editor Alice Thompson was entitled to wear the biggest hat in the place: she was made publisher of Seventeen...
...reading and miming famous chapters of his novels, he knew that he was shortening his life. For a few years he enjoyed the actor's supreme privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk, the man who had as many voices as he had characters, could feel his pulse rise from 80 to 120 beats a minute as, in the person of Bill Sikes, he advanced on himself in the person of Nancy, and her dying "shrieks rang through the hall." Once offstage, Dickens would collapse...