Word: shorthanded
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...Steel and Tin Workers. When the men were out, the cupboard was bare, and Bill Price early began piecing out the family income by running errands and clerking nights in a store. At 16, when his father died suddenly, Bill had to go to work in earnest. He learned shorthand, earned $50 a month as a secretary by day, and by night went to Professor Dennis O'Connor's $25-a-month classes in math, geography, history, English and Latin. After three years he was able to pass exams to enter night law classes at the University...
Visitors lingered longest before one of the tiniest works on view, the Winter Landscape by Rembrandt (see cut at full-size). Rembrandt broke with the polished limning of his day to create a graphic shorthand of his own, which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems...
...course, open to undergraduates and graduate women, offers six weeks of concentrated training in shorthand, typewriting, use of office machines, and secretarial practice...
...after the first thrill of emotion, what a formidable surprise!" says Transcriber Paul Fleuriot de Langle. The papers comprise a diary which records Napoleon's conversations throughout the exile, and a regular summary of daily court life. But everything was written in a private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...
...spite of fame & fortune, Gregg stuck by his Chicago school. He was a bubbly little man who lived for shorthand (he used it in his own personal letters to his graduates) and wanted his school to be the best in the U.S. As the years passed, his curriculum became more & more elaborate. He gave courses in business law, mathematics, and personal grooming. He had 48-week courses for secretaries, a nine-month course for college graduates, a three-year course for court reporters, including such specialities as congressional reporting and three-voice testimony. His only worry about the school...