Word: shorthand
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There may be a few mechanical difficulties to overcome. Some lecturers prepare a full manuscript, while others speak very informally. In the latter case someone would have to take shorthand notes, but this would be permissible in a magazine frankly devoted to reproducing talks just as they are given. Informality would have to be the keynote of such a publication. Ranging over widely varied fields of interest, the choice of lectures should and could aim at popular consumption. As John Mason Brown has put it, they ought to "stand on their feet--not on their footnotes...
Gandhi sat on a sheet-covered mat, his hands folded under a white cotton blanket. A shorthand expert was on one side; on the other were two women disciples, one of them Madeleine Slade, daughter of a British admiral. A "wide gulf" separated Britain and India, began the Mahatma. There was no "prospect whatsoever of a peaceful, honorable settlement" until Britain let the Indians determine their own status. And then: "When this is done, questions regarding defense of minorities, princes and European interests automatically will be dissolved. ... If Britain cannot recognize India's legitimate claims, what will...
Manhattan's Pratt School of Business bestowed on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia a testimonial of special merit. Reason: 30 years ago it had taught him shorthand and typing in 30 hours. The Mayor's counter-testimonial: the day he finished his 30-hour course (cost $7.50), he got a job with Abercrombie & Fitch at $18 a week...
Hopping mad, Bill Cunningham went back to the office to write a blistering story about Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand, because he had never met her (except for a few minutes before a football game) until the day they were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry...
...student at The Bronx Public School 44, he made the track team by learning to jump the gun without detection. After he won a shorthand championship with a broken finger by ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries...