Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hitler's Secret Conversations, by Adolf Hitler (introduced by British Historian H. R. Trevor-Roper). The Führer's unguarded, all-night talkfests, taken down in shorthand by party associates, give an excellent insight into a weird and fascinating mind (TIME...
...reminisced about his youth, dreamed about his empire, pontificated about whatever came to mind. Hitler's Secret Conversations is the stenographic record of these ramblings in the Führer's East Prussian and Russian headquarters between July 1941 and November 1944. They were taken down in shorthand by trusted party officials, Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker, then corrected and preserved by the Führer's factotum, SS Leader Martin Bormann.* Samples...
After four years of such investing, Joey collected her due interest: an accredited high-school diploma. She also landed a job as one of the paid, part-time staff members of the Star, the community news magazine. Now, Joey hopes to study shorthand, bookkeeping and journalism. She also hopes to achieve her greatest ambition: permanent residence in the U.S. and U.S. citizenship...
...Steel and Tin Workers. When the men were out, the cupboard was bare, and Bill Price early began piecing out the family income by running errands and clerking nights in a store. At 16, when his father died suddenly, Bill had to go to work in earnest. He learned shorthand, earned $50 a month as a secretary by day, and by night went to Professor Dennis O'Connor's $25-a-month classes in math, geography, history, English and Latin. After three years he was able to pass exams to enter night law classes at the University...
Visitors lingered longest before one of the tiniest works on view, the Winter Landscape by Rembrandt (see cut at full-size). Rembrandt broke with the polished limning of his day to create a graphic shorthand of his own, which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems...