Word: automaton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that human element which is so essential a part of any large food purveying establishment. It is just this touch of individuality that gives world famous restaurants their reputations. Oscar of the Waldorf is no mere automaton, but an artist who knows the difference between curds and whey...
...Baptist Church, Dr. Compton attends nearly every Sunday, is actively interested in missions, Y. M. C. A. and settlement work. Like Britain's Eddington, he sees in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (which avers that the behavior of electrons is unpredictable) evidence that man is not an automaton in a mechanistic universe, but a free agent responsible to his Creator. "Science can have no quarrel," says Arthur Compton. ''with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as His children...
...eyes of the automaton glowed...
...dozen other questions and answers followed, some elaborately facetious. When May inquired what the automaton liked to eat, it responded with a minute-long discourse on the virtues of toast made with Macy's automatic electric toaster. Finally when May requested the creature to raise its arm and fire the pistol, the arm went up, the metal forefinger pulled the trigger, the firing-pin fell with a click. Professor May explained that store officials would not permit him to use blank cartridges...
...headache is not in every case a part of the migrainous attack. A person reasonably normal in emotional and psychic make-up may have periodic episodes in which he feels depressed, absentminded, confused. Things and ideas seem strange and unreal to him. He may act like an automaton, swear he is living in both the past and present simultaneously, add up two separate columns of figures at the same time. To be called migraine, such attacks must be short (not more than two days), periodic, not associated with unconsciousness...