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If you persist, lawyers' clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you.

But she liked to pretend that she was indistinguishable from the rest, and that when a wet day drove her to the Underground or omnibus, she gave and took her share of crowd and wet with clerks and typists and commercial men, and shared with them the serious business of winding-up the world to tick for another four-and-twenty hours.

She made her way to the side of the first disengaged typist, and sitting in an easy-chair gave down her copy, here and there adding a little but leaving it mainly in the rough.

In such happy, healthful activities did Mr Nutt disport himself, until the ensuing Saturday found him at the same desk, dictating to the same typist, and using the same blue pencil on the first instalment of Mr Finn's revelations.

Her education made it likely that she would be a typist more efficient than the average, and her story made her claims appealing.

He gave Philip a glance but did not speak to him; he dictated a letter to the typist, a girl who sat at a small table in one corner; then he asked Philip his name, age, and what experience he had had.

1920-1948), juggernauts like MGM, Paramount, and RKO staffed their scenario, story, and stenographic departments with secretaries, typists, and mimeograph machine operators who printed for the entire studio.

When typewriters were manual, typing was limited largely to professional typists who used all their fingers for touch-typing.

A letter confirming the appointment of a typist in the War Rooms Winston Churchill seated at his desk in the No.10 Annexe Map Room, in May 1945 The switchboard operators and typists in Room 60, and (left) a light-hearted memorandum by some of the female staff on the subject of Operation Desperate - on the shortage of silk stockings, chocolate and cosmetics - ahead of Winston Churchill's second visit to Washington in May 1942 The Cabinet War Room as it's seen today and, left, officers at work in the Map Room

The Chancellor stressed the UK must "embrace change" and suggested that worries about shorthand typists losing their jobs with the advent of the personal computer were ill-founded.

Their vast pool of experienced and skilled typists can type all documents, formats and file lengths.