Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessary, it can "remember" numbers and hold them for future use. An elaborate system of controls makes eniac so flexible that its inventors have given up looking for problems it cannot handle. There is plenty of work ahead for eniac, its inventors say. In nearly every science and every branch of engineering, there are proved principles which have lain dormant for years because their use required too much calculation. Example: aircraft designers know how to predict air-drag theoretically, but the job takes so much figuring that they prefer to make scale models and test them-somewhat inaccurately-in expensive...
Look confidently for some beautiful documentaries, privately sponsored, during the next two years. They'll set pace and pattern for a new and active and interesting branch of the film family...
...decision was evidently in answer to a U.S. request. Recently the State Department had asked eight Governments to allow full and impartial coverage of UNRRA's work. (UNRRA has just gone to work in the Ukraine.) Even if the Soviet censors open a branch office at Kiev, as they doubtless will, the press would welcome the Ukrainian move. A second window into Russia might not give sufficient cross-ventilation, but it would at least give a change of scenery...
...Ontario branch of the Canadian Prisoners of War Relatives Association took over the entire convention floor of Toronto's bustling Royal York Hotel. Manager Jack Johnson battened down his furniture, opened the doors of his concert and banquet halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown...
Charlie Cole, "at times a disconcertingly bright guy" in the eyes of his friends, has been professor of history at Columbia since 1940, but has taken time out, first to serve as an OPA branch chief, pinning ceiling price tags on laundry tickets and the work of stevedores, then as a Navy instructor in Military Government. In 1943 Amherst got around to borrowing him too, to head an alumni committee to consult on postwar plans. Amherst is heading toward a system of carefully integrated freshman and sophomore years, more freedom for upperclassmen. An inveterate gardener, President Cole's prime...