Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matter of Record. In St. Louis, the Governmental Research Institute announced the results of a survey in the city's magistrate courts: two stenographers didn't know shorthand, another couldn't type...
...Army. Once he decided to do it, he made a quick, sharp campaign of it. On Feb. 7 of this year, in his quarters at Fort Myer, Va., he started to dictate at a clip of 5,000 words a day, pacing steadily as he talked. After his shorthand expert had left for the day, he corrected the first draft, began to add to it in longhand, and soon found himself working on until 3 a.m. By March 24-46 days later-he was finished...
...began in Tokyo 2½ years ago in the black painted granite building which had been the Japanese War Ministry, on a hill behind the Emperor's palace. Eleven nations were represented on the Allied tribunal. * The trial cost $9,000,000, used up 100 tons of paper. Shorthand writers took down nearly 10 million words of argument and testimony. During the trial two defendants died; one, who began acting queerly, was sent to a mental hospital...
Raoul Dufy is the 71-year-old granddaddy of modem chic. His personal blend of bright, carelessly smeared colors with shorthand draftsmanship is imitated in chichi perfume ads and fashion magazines month after month. Last week gallery-goers in Paris and Manhattan could see the real thing: paintings from Dufy's palsied but still brilliant hand and (in Paris) tapestries woven from his designs. The tapestries, reported Paris' Combat, were "a triumphal success . . . pure...
...busy to talk to Laguerre about an important issue and promised to write out the answer for him during that day's session. At its close an aide handed Laguerre a sheet of paper written in Byrnes's famed old-style court-stenographer's shorthand. The trouble was that not even Byrnes's own aides, who were used to it, could read the script, and the Secretary himself was not available to decipher it. The sheet of paper now reposes under glass on the wall of Laguerre's office, and to this day nobody knows...