Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...
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Most of the forums centered around discrimination and segregation, academic freedom, and the current debate on Federal aid to education. The NSA took a stand against discriminatory admissions practices, citing character and academic standing as the only bases for determining a student's desirability. The organization will work for legislative action against schools which perpetuate discriminatory policies...
...question of Federal aid, the NSA went on record as favoring Federal scholarships and fellowship grants. However, it was mindful of the limitations which Federal help would entail. Such help should not be on a discriminatory basis, and where segregation exists in the primary and secondary levels of education in a state, scholarships should be divided in proportion to the racial groups within the population...
...making their plea for aid, however, the Spanish students made it plain that they have no use for the largest international student group, the International Union of Students, which states that it has 54 member organizations representing 3,000,000 students...