Word: typists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left behind her black friends without embittering them. "In advancing herself, she kind of faded away from us," says classmate Nathan Booker. "But nobody held it against her because she was always nice and courteous." She graduated from high school in 1957 and took a job as a clerk typist; two years later she made the leap to Washington because "I wanted to see more, do more, know more," as she once told a reporter. She married, had a daughter and divorced while moving through a succession of federal secretarial positions that culminated in 12 years as confidential assistant...
During this period, writers composed articles by hand and gave them to a hired typist, who entered the stories into a device which encoded each letter as a sequence of punched holes on a spool of paper. The spool was then fed into a special printer, which decoded the punched holes and churned out a column of text...
Abola said that students who are having RSI problems are not being exempted from the remainder of their assignments. But he added that they are pointed to UHS so they can get a typist to do the work for them...
...extensions [are being given].... There may be individual cases which may be being considered but I'm not involved in that," he said. "The remaining work is doable with a typist...
...also had to finish your manuscript about a week before it was due in order to give it to the typist to handle it. That was a terrific nuisance," Mansfield says...