Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Setting his feet squarely on the edge of his desk, adjusting his green eyeshade and squaring his handkerchief, the Vagabond wet his fingers and started leafing through Holiday magazine. He had done this so often that now the pages leaped up as his thumb drew near, leaped up and fell back until the Chosen Spot appeared. Vag wasted little time with the pictures; the article itself moved him more, for hidden there was a great truth and the more he pondered it, the truer it seemed...
Yesterday was Art's seventh day in his Blockhouse headquarters since November 20. His desk was jammed with reports, correspondence, and schedules. And he plans a lot of work on these plus the movies of last year's games before spring practice opens on March...
...must not only clean out his desk and catch up on the movies, but must also get the other four movies analyzed before March...
...York Star were called to a hastily planned staff meeting. They knew that things had been going badly for the tabloid; as they filed into the fifth-floor advertising office they feared the worst. Dapper little Publisher Bartley C. Crum, looking worn and grim, climbed atop a desk...
...cracking President Gilbert Henderson, Neumiller is a surprisingly mild-looking, soft-spoken man-a moderator more than a boss. As his friend Author Upson puts it, Neumiller "just sort of grew up with the company." He started at 19, as an engineering clerk ("I always tried to get the desk nearest the boss's door"), worked up through drafting-room superintendent, parts manager, service manager, sales executive, and, after a bitter strike in 1937, became industrial relations director...