Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here TIME'S three chief writers shared a long narrow cell barely big enough for three desks end to end. The editor sat at a desk in a large room surrounded by smaller desks for typists and half-a-dozen college girls (at one time from Smith, at others from Mt. Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley)-the beginnings of a research staff...
Their pre-publication office was a room in an ancient two-story frame house on Manhattan's East 18th Street. Between their desks stood a large iron kettle-about the size and shape used by African cannibals for the boiling of missionaries...
Five minutes later the Music researcher is in the teletype room with a memorandum for the printers. "MUSIC MUST CORRECTION. PICKLED PIG'S FEET. PARA 3, SENTENCE BEGINNING ONE DAY WHEN HE WAS STILL A STEVEDORE, CHANGE EBENEZER MAITLAND SMITH TO EBENEZER MORTIMER SMITH...
...Drop everything. The French Cabinet is out. We'll kill the Yugoslav story to make room...
Passengers will arrive under a strut-free, translucent canopy projecting 100 feet from the principal waiting room, drive out of the airdrome along underground roads...