Word: formerly
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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...
...Former and current students of the seminar joined the letter-writing campaign, saying they were disappointed with the decision to drop the course...
Additionally, Kelling concluded, severalcurrent officers who were hired during the tenureof former HUPD chief Paul Johnson are "insecure intheir police roles" because of HUPD's status as acollege police agency and the officers' officialassociation with the University's civiliansecurity guards...
During the year, they audit courses and participate in weekly discussion groups. More than 50 former fellows have won Pulitzer Prizes, and three have earned the Golden Pen, the highest international honor for writers...
...Former students and colleagues spoke of the compassion and teaching ability of Vail. He was 55 years old when he died March 24 after an extended battle with lymphoma...