Word: teller
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Scientists are, of course, accepted as intellectuals, but with qualifications. Liberal J. Robert Oppenheimer, for instance, is unquestionably accepted, but not necessarily Conservative Edward Teller. Members of other disciplines concede intellectual status only to the most creative and original scientists, relegating the rest into a vast limbo of mere technicians and experts. George Babbitt's sneering at longhairs could not muster anywhere near the savagery of one intellectual's proclaiming that another...
...suspect, 62-year-old James Farrell, was arrested Friday night after a 20-year-old woman bank teller spotted him in the subway, followed him to a Boston restaurant, and from there called police...
Miss Emily Caldeira, a teller at the Reliance Cooperative Bank, was on her way to the doctor's when she spotted Farrell on the subway. She was with her boy friend, and they followed Farrell as he got off at Boylston St. and walked into a restaurant...
Miss Caldiera had been in an adjoining teller cage on Tuesday when a man, keeping his right hand in his pocket, walked up to the counter and presented a robbery note. He received $1875, and then proceeded to drop $500 of it while hurrying out of the bank...
...anonymous sanctuary of numbered accounts. Only two or three bank officers usually know the true identity of the depositors. The bankers also assign false names to all such depositors (obtaining a specimen signature of the alias) so that nobody can present a lucky string of numbers to a teller and walk away with a secret fortune. Any banker who violates what the law calls "his duty to observe silence or professional secrecy" faces a fine of up to $4,000 and six months in jail; so well disciplined are Swiss bankers that no case has ever reached a federal court...