Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swinging-bell ringer," as it is called, will take a few months at most to install, the "Harvard Alumni Bulletin" reports. The device will be operated by a motor in the Memorial Church steeple and a mechanical brain in the basement, known as a "program clock," which tells the mechanism when to ring...
Wasn't it amazing how the pollsters, observers and interpreters thought exactly like the marvelous mechanical brain? A rather pertinent reminder that juggling statistics is not necessarily logical reasoning. Just feed the same statistics, trends and facts into any number of minds and all will rearrange them into the same pattern, and though there may not be a single real thought or reasonable observation in the lot, the pattern is accepted as profound logic...
Wild Blue Yonder. In Milwaukee, police looked for William Ferguson, lecturer (at $1 a head) on the wonders of Mars, after he 1) tried to sell Policewoman Mary Smeaton a brain-relaxing helmet and other souvenirs he said he brought back from his trip to the planet in 1947; 2) told her she would return to her home planet Saturn after 14,000 more years; 3) rhapsodized about Martian food, which the body absorbs without the need for elimination, and Martian water, which can be swum in without getting...
...Most dramatic among the week's trade-policy developments was Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's announcement that he had approved U.S. participation in the International Finance Corp., an institution to be set up as a subsidiary of the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development). IFC, brain child of the World Bank's President Eugene Black, will invest capital and share ownership in private ventures, mainly in underdeveloped lands, and thus also promote private investments which would not otherwise be made...
Mozart: Horn Concertos (Dennis Brain; Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan; Angel). Mozart wrote four horn concertos between 1782 and 1786, each one more fun than the last. Britain's Dennis Brain, one of the world masters on the French horn, ripples them off, both elegantly and buoyantly...