Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like millions of working girls, tilt-nosed Betty Oliver was tired of waiting for heaven to protect her. At 34, she was bored with her job and with herself. In her drab little office in Dallas, one day in 1945, she began scrawling doodles in her shorthand notebook. They became the first crude dummies of a magazine for girls like herself. Last week her Business Girl, launched with $7.50 capital, was out of the red and she was ready to ask her stockholders to recapitalize at a round...
Wiser, some sadder, and a few disillusioned, a hundred young women in the Radcliffe summer secretarial and publishing courses not only pack up shorthand notebooks for the last time at Longfellow Hall today, but also mixed impressions of the Harvard male on warm weather prowl...
...descended on Cambridge July 1, spent the intervening weeks variously studying shorthand and typing or, in the other school, how to become a successful publisher. The latter course involved everything from proofreading to promotional schemes...
...People Relax Me." At 48, he is a smiling, relaxed man with a knack of getting along with his fellow workers, most of whom call him Dave. He is a voracious reader, with a lightning mind, makes notes in clean, clear Gregg shorthand. He has not smoked since he lost his voice chain-smoking three packs in a row during an all-night conference with Wendell Willkie. He drinks sparingly: occasionally one Martini, rarely more...
...simplified essays on a variety of subjects, some as topical as How to Mix Pablum, some as timeless as What to Do When Frozen ("Get to the doctor . . . as soon as you can"). Printed in English and in Eskimo syllables (a system of sound-writing which looks something like shorthand), it has helpful hints on how to collect family allowances from the Government, and it tells how to avoid hunger ("aim carefully when you shoot"). But most of The Book of Wisdom is concerned with helping the Eskimo to keep healthy and clean. Excerpts...