The Reporter's Companion: An Adaptation of Phonography (as Developed in the 9th Ed. of the "Manual" of the System) to Verbatim Reporting |
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Page 17 - This is the best plan while writing on a desk or table. When writing on the knee, the first finger should be introduced instead of the second, and the leaf be shifted up only about two inches. The finger should be introduced at the first pause the speaker makes or at any convenient opportunity that presents itself.
Page 77 - ... had been framed in anticipation of a rupture with any Foreign Power. The next evening, the Chancellor of the Exchequer brought forward his formal proposition for appointing two Committees — one to inquire into the Army, Navy, and Ordnance expenditure, the other into the Miscellaneous Estimates, and to report to the House whether any reductions could be effected or any improvements made in the finanical arrangements of these several departments. The expenditure for the Navy, Army, and Ordnance...
Page 12 - Every publication not copying from or abridging any other, but giving original reports, keeps one of a series of reporters constantly in the gallery of the Lords, and another in the Commons. These, like sentinels, are, at stated periods, relieved by their colleagues, when they take advantage of the interval to transcribe their notes, in order to be ready again to resume the duty of note-taking, and afterwards that of transcription for the press. A succession of reporters for each establishment is...
Page 3 - Shorthand, on account of its great and general utility, merits a much higher rank among the arts and sciences than is commonly allotted to it. Its usefulness is not confined to any particular science or profession, but is universal ; it is therefore by no means unworthy the attention and study of men of genius and erudition.