Word: shorthand
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...school the millionheiresses will balance books, study stock-picking, learn to discriminate between a swindle and a sure thing. But, "As it is not the object of Webber College to fit women for secretarial positions, it does not include any form of shorthand writing in its curriculum...
...conquer," etc., etc.? it was not surprising that Nominee Smith was boiling inwardly on his way to Philadelphia. His wrath became apparent during the delivery of his Philadelphia speech, in the bitterness of his tone and the fre quent unleashing of angry "ain'ts," which discreet shorthand reporters corrected into ''is nots" and "have nots" but which there was no concealing from the radio audience...
When Nominee Hoover, who is none too fond of newsgatherers, apostrophized "those invisible millions," the radio audience, it was perhaps with the hope that some day a Nominee's baby-patting, pipe-smoking and flycasting will not have to be overseen by newsgatherers clutching shorthand pads and cinema cranks. Perhaps, some day, contact between the People and their servants can be maintained directly, by colored-wireless-television or something. Then, at scheduled moments during the day or week, the Nominee can simply take off his invisible-silencing-suit or whatever device has been provided for his privacy, and, face...
...period of Miss Savage's examination was 5½ hours. No policewoman was present. She was alone with Inspector Collins and a male shorthand stenographer. She was told that "there's a lot more we want to know about this case," and that the constables who were fined for falsely arresting her "are respectable men with good police records and besides their wives have got to be considered." Inspector
...hard-working Midlander who, later in life and with greater effort than most men, trained his brain at Harvard and became an outstanding metropolitan trial lawyer. Born in Pottawatomie County, Iowa, he was a 24-year-old court reporter, married and with no means of support beyond shorthand stenography, when he determined to become a lawyer. His wife and his shorthand were what helped him through the University of Nebraska. Between classes at the Harvard Law School he was secretary to Philosopher William James. Among his classmates was Elihu Root Jr., under whose father's aegis the Manhattan firm...