Early in my journalism career, I was at a press conference when I noticed one of the reporters for a major New York daily frantically scribbling notes in shorthand -- a skill I foolishly stereotyped ...

Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...

In this age of computers, many may consider the skill of taking shorthand a dying art. Marge Hollingshead, a technical clerk with the City of Sioux City for 37 years, would disagree. "It has many ...

— May an old stenographer come to the defense of many young people who feel rather aggrieved at certain criticisms of their work in an article in The Atlantic for December, 1895 ? It is true that ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Last October, a collaboration called The Dickens Code project made a public appeal to amateur puzzle fans and codebreakers for assistance in decoding a letter written by Victorian novelist Charles ...

Zoe Bambery, a senior at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, might send more than 100 instant messages -- IMs -- during a typical evening. So during the SAT exam, the 18-year-old found herself ...