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Word: rolltop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nassau St. between the years 1868 and 1915 was a long, ill-lit, barnlike room jammed with rolltop desks, littered with paper, its walls smeared with grime and dirt. When the presses pounded on the floor above, a thin downpour of dust floated over the room. Grimy wires and rusty old hooks used by gymnasts when Tammany Hall had occupied the building were suspended from the ceiling. A tortuous circular staircase led to the room, up & down which ambitious young reporters used to trudge: Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, David Graham Phillips, Edwin C. Hill, Will and Wallace Irwin, Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sun's Centary | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...accent and is very fond of The Nation. You can tell that there are mice inside when you stand on the front stoop of No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. But you get used to the smell. Everything is very clean. In immaculate white linen dress Dr. Slye sits behind a rolltop steel desk littered with papers. Dolly, her fat bull terrier bitch (currently ill), wanders in & out. In the next room and upstairs and downstairs are rows and rows of small cages, piled one on top of the other, looking something like beehives. In them are 10,000 mice. Each mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer by Inheritance | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...partners stationed in Manhattan (five manage Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia) work together behind a long row of rolltop mahogany desks on the first floor of No. 23 Wall St., shut off by a glass partition from the banking floor and an area where clerks toil incessantly with calculating machines. By elevator they can go to the floor above where a long corridor decorated with large photographs of partners gives access to private offices where they can go to dictate to secretaries. (The Elder Morgan would tolerate no female stenographers but that day is long past.) Every morning the partners, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now It Is Told | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...been a well whence Mr. Ridley provided his tenements with cheap water of questionable purity, the strange, 88-year-old man had partitioned off a cheerless office. There were two iron safes, a high counting desk and swivel stool where his clerk sat, and Mr. Ridley's rolltop desk. Neither of the occupants ever took off his rubbers or overcoat. In their Dickensian foxhole they shared a lunch of bread and cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime-oj-the-Week | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...Oscar Hammerstein's opera company, which became overnight a threatening rival to the Metropolitan. At the Metropolitan he ignored changing fashions, kept his courtly, old-school ways, his Windsor ties, his tufted goatee, his hair long. His office was a celebrated rendezvous for newspaper-folk. Behind his rolltop desk hung his own definition of relativity- "There is no hitching post in the universe" -across which Albert Einstein wrote last year "Gelesen und richtig befunden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Guard | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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