Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Begin on some little station," was the advice of Ronald V. Cochran, news director of WCOP. "The pay is small--usually under $35--but you can advance rapidly by jumping from one station to another." A man can switch to a better job within a year after starting, he said...
...would he do before he assumed his duties as president of Columbia University? Ike laughed. His ideas were like those of General Brehon Somervell, he said: "Find a cottage with a rocking chair on the porch and sit there for six weeks or so. After that I'll begin to rock-slowly." (Actually, Ike is going to write his war memoirs...
With all this power, the computator really deals with only two figures zero and one. All numbers fed into it are translated into this "binary" scale before operations begin. Calculation is simplified by changing 6 into 110, 7 into 111, and 13 into...
Work will begin Monday in the basement of Memorial Church. A mobile X-ray unit, which handles 25 people every 15 minutes, will remain at its initial location for three weeks, and will be supported by a second unit in Eliot House after Friday...
...little joke telling of his experience chairing the as-yet-unnamed intra-University (College, Law, Business, Engineering, Divinity, etc., Schools) organization. Everyone laughed. Not much was said about the new organization. Another matter came up about the X-raying of College students by the Cambridge TB Association which will begin on February 16th. though the service will be free, Weld made the astute observation that the Association's hope for 5200 victims was overly hopeful as he believed the average, normal Harvard undergrad wouldn't bother to walk past the X-ray machine if it were placed between...