Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, open to undergraduates and graduate women, offers six weeks of concentrated training in shorthand, typewriting, use of office machines, and secretarial practice...
...after the first thrill of emotion, what a formidable surprise!" says Transcriber Paul Fleuriot de Langle. The papers comprise a diary which records Napoleon's conversations throughout the exile, and a regular summary of daily court life. But everything was written in a private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...
...time, there were other graduates, and the school soon outgrew its one classroom. Gregg added courses in bookkeeping, typing, and business English. He started a summer school, correspondence courses, began publishing his own shorthand manuals. By 1912 he had thousands of pupils around the world...
Pupils of his system have ranged from Billy Rose (200 words a minute) to Cuba's General Batista (175-200 words). There were businessmen and bankers, soldiers and statesmen, and legions of just plain Kitty Foyles. Of all the Americans who were to learn shorthand, 90% learned it from Gregg.* By the time he died in 1948, his loops and squiggles had recorded most of the business of the century...
...spite of fame & fortune, Gregg stuck by his Chicago school. He was a bubbly little man who lived for shorthand (he used it in his own personal letters to his graduates) and wanted his school to be the best in the U.S. As the years passed, his curriculum became more & more elaborate. He gave courses in business law, mathematics, and personal grooming. He had 48-week courses for secretaries, a nine-month course for college graduates, a three-year course for court reporters, including such specialities as congressional reporting and three-voice testimony. His only worry about the school...