Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into a Brick Wall. In a stunting airplane, where the G-forces last for several seconds, a sitting pilot can take about ten Gs, when he is dressed in a special suit to keep the blood from being drained from his brain. A man on the Air Force sled can take more for shorter periods. How much he can take depends on his position and how his body is supported...
...whose instrument just happens to be the violin." Now that he is established, he feels an "inward calm" that comes, he says, "from getting away from purely commercial competitiveness. I've now arrived at the point at which the only thing that can stop you is your brain-and how keenly you are aware of the possibilities in music...
Seated at an International Business Machines Corp. electronic computer last week, a girl who understands not a word of Russian punched out the message: Mi pyeryedayem mislyi posryedstvom ryech-yi. In a few seconds the mechanical "brain" spewed out a translation from Russian to English: "We transmit thoughts by means of speech...
...political and military notables. In Rickover's mind the Nautilus is not perfect; he criticizes it rather than praises it, for that is his way with the things he loves. He knows how it could be made better and how future nuclear submarines will be better. His nimble brain has already run ahead to the day when atomic engines will have proved themselves in submarines and will have multiplied to change the face of the world...
...result was an NBC contract for more than $100,000 under which the network buys the Sherwood name and brain for a period of five years and a total of nine TV plays, although the playwright retains movie and stage rights. This week televiewers got a look at Sherwood's first offering, The Backbone of America, sponsored by Miller High Life Beer. Sherwood had been promised there would be no censorship ("Unless, of course, I loaded the script with four-letter words"). NBC went even further: Sherwood got free run of the set, and the actors (Thomas Mitchell, Wendell...