Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also ten deep jugs and thin-necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also had a 20th Century wit and a deliberate lack of refinement that marked...
...over his sketches, Bernard scribbles shorthand notes on the time of day, the type of window frames, the age or make of an automobile, and then adds tiny numbers (one for light, ten for dark) that make up his color scheme. Even months later, "I can read the notes like a book-in three minutes...
...bartender at the quietly aristocratic Plaza, a hotel which was frequented by many rich and famous men of the day, among them Diamond Jim Brady-"an overstuffed pig, with his stickpins all in little animal shapes." O'Dwyer stayed there three years, studying shorthand in his spare time, brushing up on his Spanish, and yearning for the export business. Then came disillusionment; the export business wanted no part of a bartender...
Typing and Shorthand...
...week course is designed for college students and graduates, and offers instruction in the fundamentals of typewriting and shorthand. It was opened to men this year because Radcliffe authorities felt that this type of training was in demand among college...