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Word: automaticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the moment, Dilworth observed, he was busy piling potato peelings on a scale and marking down notations now and then. Glancing again at his tray, Dilworth suddenly had no feeling for breakfast and as he shoved the tray into the automatic dispenser he noticed a sign which read:

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Man Cannot Live... | 11/18/1959 | See Source »

Uncorseted Bliss. German-Jewish Papa Stein was a wool merchant, and some would argue that Gertrude was, too. As a baby, Gertrude, wrote her mother, was "a little Schnatterer. She talks all day long and repeats everything that is said or done." At Radcliffe, Gertrude became Philosopher William James'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Abominable Snowoman | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

New government mechanisms are needed. There should be apparatus such as now exists for mediation and public fact-finding. But in a time when "facts" are so complex, this alone is not enough. Fact-finders should be empowered to make recommendations to both sides--as was unofficially done in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steel Strike | 11/10/1959 | See Source »

After all its film was exposed, an automatic mechanism set Lunik to spinning again, so that sunlight during its journey would not scorch one side while the other side froze and upset the delicate mechanism inside. Then, having gone around the moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Moon's Far Side | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Automatic Foreman. Machines Bull was founded in 1931 by Vieillard, then an adding-machine-company engineer. He bought the patent rights to a type of punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Bull Market | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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