stenographer
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We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” the correspondent wrote.
“We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi wrote.
The Panic of 1893 was followed by a boom in corporations and their demand for what we now call white-collar office workers, such as stenographers and bookkeepers.
Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.
“Then I started writing. I got my big stack of index cards and sorted through them, and there the characters were. There were their stories. I was basically a stenographer.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
