Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projects at the Institute today involve an annual expenditure of approximately 28 million dollars. Last year's academic budget was just under 15 million dollars. Government expenditures were principally divided among three classified projects--the Instrumentation Laboratory at the Institute, operations evaluation for the Navy Department in Washington, and Bedford's Lincoln Project...
...security net around the Lincoln Laboratories, they saw for the first time the M.I.T.-developed SAGE warning system--"semi-automatic ground environment." Designed to eliminate human errors in data-processing, Project Lincoln's electronic devices assemble and evaluate battle information, and even direct the attack of interceptors. With the Bedford installation serving as a prototype coordinating the air defense of New England, 32 similar centers are projected for the United States and Canada...
Powell, who finally found an apartment in Bedford Gardens near his research project, added that renters who were on the list tended to disguise their discrimination more carefully, and seemed to be "more polite and slicked...
...Superintendent Charles E. Wingo of Argo, Summit and Bedford Park, 111. uses a system originally started by the late Julie Hay, a longtime Bedford Park schoolteacher. Teacher Hay figured out that 87% of all the syllables in the abridged Webster's dictionary are phonetic. The Hay-Wingo system begins with the short vowel sounds, then the ten most commonly used consonants. After that come the long vowel sounds and the ,rest of the consonants. Within two months, local teachers claim, "the children are unlocking words-on their...
Four assistant Band managers were also appointed Saturday. They are: David S. Barnet '58, of Eliot House and New Bedford, Mass., Samuel H. Kim '58, of Winthrop House and Watertown, Mass., Kenneth H. Lang '58, of Eliot House and Pleasant Ridge, Mich., and Michael N. Oxman '58, of Dunster House and New Rochelle...