Word: bulbed
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These experiments illustrate the paradox at the heart of today's computer science. The most powerful computing machines -- giant number crunchers possessed of speed and storage capacities beyond human comprehension -- are essentially dumb brutes with no more intellectual depth than a light bulb. At the other extreme are computers that have begun to exhibit the first glimmers of human-like reasoning, but only within the confines of narrowly defined tasks...
...article on tax reform and directed him to a chair in the corner of her office. But within minutes of returning to deskside, the client was gesturing so violently with his arms that he walloped a lamp, sending it headlong into a wall and shattering the bulb. Said a sympathetic Lee: "This is the worst tax year possible...
...other two projects, a winter ice labyrinthand a spring bulb planting are still scheduled totake place, Zielinski said. Zielinski added thatstudent opposition to the stripes plan helped toprompt its cancellation...
...Bulb planting is living testimony to thespirit of beauty that the Quad represents," saidShawn A.MacDonald '88, who supervised bulbdistribution...
...Marine; 1963, art course for military wives while stationed in France; 1963-74, moving, moving, moving, mother of four children, trying to paint and cook and sew and clean house until one day, as she was working in oils, the buzzer went off on the dryer and a light bulb went on in her head. Lint...