Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born after his father's death in a decrepit Charleston house, delivered the dresses that his mother sewed for a living, started as a law-firm office boy at 14, worked up to being a court reporter and studied law on the side. (He still takes his own shorthand notes at 150 words a minute.) Said Jimmy Byrnes last week: "Certainly a country that has given a man these opportunities has a right to ask any sacrifice of him. I don't care how much it costs...
...single volume a nationwide reaction to a major historical event. Written in a little over 30 hours by 50 journalists-"50 working reporters called from golf courses and football games, from unfinished mid-day dinners and symphony concerts and favorite radio programs"-it is a collection of shorthand notes recording the emotion that swept the U.S. in a tidal wave as the Arizona burned, the Oklahoma capsized and U.S. soldiers & sailors died in action for the first time in 23 years. The reporters: the News Bureau Staff of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE. Their assignment: the people of the U.S. Public...
...Souchon's command a Negro servant places one picture at a time on a big easel, leaves it there until an imperious click from a mechanical cricket in the doctor's hand signals for its removal. Meanwhile Dr. Souchon's secretary takes down in shorthand even the most irresponsible remarks the visitor makes. Painter Souchon, who enjoys showing his pictures almost as much as he does painting them, has secretly collected a whole file of these remarks, and has compiled tables showing which of his pictures draw the most favorable comments. He calls this system his "Souchon...
...besides the blanket appeal of the Red Cross for volunteers at 18 Brattle Street, Include a call for someone to instruct sailors in marine Diesel engines of the Cooper-Bessemen type; a tutor in fine arts for a member of the Coast Guard; and students with a knowledge of shorthand, radio, mathematics or physics
Smuggled out of Germany by ways & means which émigré Editor Curt Riess will not disclose, the diary has been deciphered (Leske sometimes wrote German shorthand); translated into rational language (Leske wrote a febrile Nazi slang); the entries dated, edited and rearranged. If, as Editor Riess (who knew Leske) believes, the diary is authentic, it is the first full-length self-portrait in English of the Nazi bomber's mind...