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Word: jot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great mind can be seen in the numerous sheets on which he had sketched, say, a gearwheel mechanism, only to move swiftly on to a series of male nudes or a study of ocean waves without even changing paper. Then again, he might use an empty corner to jot down a scientific observation or a moral speculation in his strange, backward-running "mirror handwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: A Man of Infinite Possibilities | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Dunlop said Monday he would like to see the Faculty endorse the report in principle, section by section, deleting or rewording any recommendation that members find objectionable. "That commits nobody to every jot and tiddle of the report and gives the Faculty a chance for a more general discussion on questions like the economic restraints on expansion...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Dunlop's Iceberg | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...city government has been reorganized to follow the simpler federal outline, and advanced techniques of systems analysis are being applied to bureaucratic procedures that had not changed by more than a jot in a century. Still in dire need of money, the city's budget has been brought in line with income. Thanks to Wagner's custom of floating long-term loans to pay current operating expenses, New York had "rainy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

HENRIK: This Williams roars and whines and nothing more. There is not a jot of rhapsody in him. "I had gone about all these years," my Master Builder says, "torturing myself with the effort to recover something--some experience which I seemed to have forgotten"--and Williams pronounces those sacred words as though he were a handbill about soap. Veritas indeed...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: The Master Builder | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

TRAINING As a hard-driving boss who built a small shoemaking firm into an apparel and retailing combine with annual sales of $872 million, Genesco Chairman W. Maxey Jarman can fairly claim to be a business expert. Yet Jarman is going back to school. He recently struggled to jot down answers to questions on a long series of statements, spoken in everything from pure Bronx to a Southern drawl, on a tape recording prepared by the Xerox Corp. "I thought I was a pretty good listener," Jarman said after sampling the 21-hour session. "Then I took that test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Xerox U. | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

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