Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also was the suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with...
...which") because they had to make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
...simplified Dvorak keyboard, all the vowels and punctuation marks are struck by the left hand, the most frequently used consonants by the right. Thus no word or syllable can be written by the right hand alone, very few by the left alone. Moreover, 70% of a typist's strokes are on the home row. Dr. Dvorak claims that university students can attain 50 words a minute in one semester on his keyboard (months sooner than on the standard keyboard), that misspellings decrease. Last week the Chicago results gave him new hope...
...arrived. Cardinal Deacon Caccia-Dominioni chanted "Accipe tiaram" (Receive the tiara). The crowd below saw the Cardinal lift the gem-studded, beehive-shaped triple crown of the papacy and place it on the head of its wearer. Then the multitude dropped to its knees as Pius XII raised his hand in blessing...
...recent years been Papal Nuncio in Switzerland and in France. When he was sent to France in 1926, he was coldly received as "pro-German." Before he left in 1936, he had grown so close to the French Government that he was reported to have had a hand in the Hoare-Laval peace offer during the Italo-Ethi-opian War. Last week, before he was named, the German and Italian Governments actively opposed Cardinal Magli-one's candidacy for Secretary of State...