Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foamy wake of public opinion bobs a bell buoy of truth. Perhaps this decision will elucidate the obvious: 1) that the U.S. is not a "Christian" nation; 2) that the slogan "In God We Trust" is probably also unconstitutional; 3) that attempts at blanket religion are encroachments upon the freedoms of every human, Christian or nonChristian...
...public reaction to this having been satisfactory, relates Laird Bell '04, the President of the Alumni Association and the man responsible for inviting Marshall to speak at Harvard, "the Secretary of State determined to go all out for what has become known as the Marshall Plan, and a speech was prepared accordingly. The question was then the rostrum from which it should be delivered. Two or three suggestions were made, and then the Secretary remembered that he had been invite to receive a Harvard degree and that seemed a highly suitable occasion. He therefore indicated that he would like...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories' experimental Electronic Central Office in Morris, Ill., the exchange is automatic, of course. But for all the functions the exchange performs without human attention, Bell is aware that all its components can hardly work right all the time. To avoid employing human troubleshooters, Engineer Sin Hsuin Tsiang has trained the machine to spot its own breakdowns and tell humans how to fix them...
...ward off delay if a more vital component should fail-something that cannot be so easily replaced-Bell engineers have built into the system many alternative ways for the central to restart itself after a few millionths of a second of hesitation. While testing these precautions recently, they made a disquieting discovery: the loyal and resourceful machine was using an emergency procedure that had not been programmed into it by human brains. Poking into the mazes of wires with their clumsy human hands, the engineers found one wire that had been connected accidentally to a terminal that led nowhere. Says...
...Radcliffe College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 21 members of the class of 1962, including: Mrs. Dorothy A. Bell, English; Dulcie J. Eames, English; Julia B. Freeman, biochemical sciences; Mary E. Gale, English; Barbara A. Gay, Romance languages & literatures...