Word: shorthand
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...think the whole situation can be summed up in the word "jealousy." ... (I am a member of the Women's Land Army, age 22, am a tractor driver and steam shovel operator, and until two years ago I was a shorthand typist...
Usafi can supply servicemen with self-teaching texts in 15 major fields of high-school and basic college studies. Among the topics: physics, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, shorthand, automobile mechanics, bookkeeping. Beyond the Arctic Circle, in the Southwest Pacific and in other remote posts, where the rarity of mail deliveries makes correspondence study impracticable, servicemen lean heavily on the self-teachers...
What Will They Talk About? When the President, the Prime Minister and the Premier-Marshal sit down with Pavlov, Stalin's brilliant interpreter who can take English shorthand notes of Russian conversation and vice versa, not they but History will decide the prime agenda of their talk. The course of history for a generation would be influenced by what they said. But as they began the Big Three would be driven no less than lesser men by the compulsions of History-past and History-present. Plainly, the first question which history poses to Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin...
...Education), the Army Institute ships its courses not only to training camps but to troops on atolls in the Pacific and in the jungles of Africa. The Army expects that enrollment in these courses will soon top 100,000. So far the most popular courses are mathematics, bookkeeping, shorthand, trades...
...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...