Word: paperwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the new fund will go into stationery, filing cards, and other materials for committee paperwork. Miss Heaton and her assistants plan to compile a cross-indexed filo of every student who has worked in social service or is interested in doing...
Miss Gilbert, who was confirmed as chairman of the northern New England region last Saturday, will still sit on the Annex Council as second vice-president of Student Government, but will pass on the paperwork and organization of Radcliffe's NSA project--a tri-nations tour--to her successor...
Every time somebody changes a course, the secretaries go into action with mountains of paperwork. And nine-tenths of the time anybody does anything this time of year, what with book lines, study cards, and elusive tutors, he gets more worn out, more testy more frayed around the nerves, and more difficult for secretaries to get along with...
General George S. Patton Jr., embarking on his sea of paperwork as commander of the gill-sized Fifteenth Army (TIME, Oct. 15), announced that his most pressing need in the way of equipment was an eye dropper. He also announced, in response to a suggestion that he run for Congress, that he had never had anything to do with politics, "never even voted in my life." He further announced that another war was unavoidable: people who thought otherwise, said he, were wishful thinkers, or believed that wars were the result of logical events, whereas they were caused by madmen...
...Perhaps the real trouble is the way we Americans go at a job. We waste materials in a criminal manner and we cut corners in a way which makes a man who is wedded to paperwork tear his hair. But, man, how we get the job done! The day I turned the runway over to , finished and ready to use, he said to me as we were leaving: 'Now I will tell you a secret. If I had asked my Commander to get the Government chaps to build this, I would have waited six months for some bloke...