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Word: dorme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Also, secretaries offices, unlike dorm rooms, were and are configured ergonomically. Before computers became office fixtures, secretaries had both a typing table and a writing desk, the former shorter than the latter so that typing didn t involve the praying mantis posture that Harvard desks necessitate. The Sisyphean struggle of the scrivener Nipper in Herman Melville s "Bartleby the Scrivener"-first tilting his writing table to angle of the "steep roof of a Dutch house" to ease his back, then lowering the table "to his waistbands" and stooping over when it stopped the circulation in his arms, then again tilting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...however, he has largely recovered. There was, he recounts, no one cure. "I think, for me, what healed it was a combination of massages, swimming every day, and not using my hands." When he did start typing again, Suleiman made improvements in his dorm workstation. "When I got back to school, I was worried that it wasn t going to get better. I bought the new keyboard, had the tray, had the chair, and have been typing the whole year. Now my back and neck are still a little problematic but I don t say I have RSI anymore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...that Tercentenary Theatre is an optimum location to appeal to large masses of the student body at once. Students continuously Sever to Widener to the Yard on the hour for a majority . But at the same time, we are doing just that: running from one section back to our dorm rooms or off to grab a "fly-by" lunch before our next class. Rarely do we even pause to peruse the updated kiosks or study posted flyers. If we pay such little attention to humorous brightly colored posters, why would we be any more responsive to the monotone of muted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voices Unheard | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...amount of time it takes to put on a movie, we could make double or triple that amount doing dorm crew," says Evan S. Levine '00, who heads the magazine's movie efforts. "It's not the most efficient way to make money...

Author: By Harrel E. Conner jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: High costs, low turnout force student groups out of the Science | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...amount of time we have to put in to put on a movie we could make double or triple that amount doing dorm crew," says Evan S. Levine '00, who heads the magazine's movie efforts. "It's not the most efficient way to make money...

Author: By Harrel E. Conner jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Madness | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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