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...Jones & Laughlin polishing mill. The work paid 22? an hour; he soon found another job where the hourly rate was 36?. When an opportunity arose to become a machinist's helper at the mill, he took it. Then in 1922 he returned to white-collar work as typist-switchboard operator at $80 a month for Wheeling Steel Products Co. Three nights a week, for three hours a night, he went to Duquesne University to study accounting...
...making errors. Always understanding, the machine holds back a difficult exercise until the pupil is ready. If set up to teach typing, it can tell the pupil which finger to use and in which direction to move it. If the pupil is a hardened hunt-and-peck typist, the teacher will discover his sloppy habits and set about correcting them at once...
...bestowing a National Book Award on his sacred and profane volume, The Shield of Achilles. Said he: "What, in the name of profit, dear foolish publishers, kind unworldly booksellers, am I doing here? . . . You will never make enough [out of me] to pay the wages of one incompetent typist . . . For your award . . . my thanks; for the dollars I shall never bring you, my apologies...
Quite simply, Lamont has two typing rooms but no place to leave typewriters. For the trustful, of course, this is no problem--the typist just leaves his machine when he goes to class or meals. One dislikes casting doubts upon human nature, but a glance at the statistics nevertheless indicates a number of losses every month in books and personal items. Typewriters are particularly vulnerable, since there is no way of checking them at the doors. For the man a bit uneasy about losing his machine, it means lugging it along every time he leaves the library...
...gimmick, Frenchmen of all walks of life were enthusiastic about the strip. "I support the striptease out of admiration for female loveliness and respect for human dignity," boomed 73-year-old Professor Edmond Heuze of the Beaux Arts Academy. "It's better," said Amateur Champion Yvette Masson, a typist, "than being cooped up in an office...