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Speed writing--with a speed of about 80 to 100 words a minute--replaces the old shorthand system as an alternative for the college student or graduate unable to spend the time necessary in learning the old shorthand system...
...head room so that Makushak, who is 6 ft. 1 in., could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans of food, bottles of soda water, newspapers and books-Alexis Carrel's Man the Unknown, a Bible, dictionaries, a French grammar, textbooks on shorthand, mechanics and mathematics. Scraps of paper bore such scribbled mottoes as: "It is better to be alone than in bad company...
...sloop and conveyed Gissen and Miss Mehrtens to a deserted island, where they spent a peaceful, uninterrupted day. On the way home, however, Researcher Mehrtens, still making notes, was taken seasick. Although she fought it off, she suggests the following procedure for such occasions: "If you have to take shorthand on a sloop, don't do it for any length of time. It's that business of looking constantly down...
...Gaposchkin described science as "merely a shorthand description of the behavior of the universe," and denied that natural science can divulge any direct laws for social behavior...
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...