Word: cards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the ring announcer at tonight's "Fight Against Leukemia" boxing exhibition introduces the first segment of an 11-match card between pugilists from New York and Boston, a burly Harvard junior in a natty, three-piece suit will heave a sigh of relief and probably sit still for the first time in three months...
Dingman said Thursday housing officials conduct the assignment process by hand after a computer punches each group's card with a random number...
...Harvard-Yenching Library, the nation's largest Chinese library, may have to convert to a new system of transliterating Chinese characters into English that would entail creating a separate card catalogue written according to that system...
...from librarians, geographers and other academics who specialize in the Middle Kingdom. Libraries seemed to be hardest hit by the switch to Pinyin (Chinese for "phonetic spelling"), with its odd-looking q's, x's and zh's, as they contemplated making millions of changes in card catalogues. The Harvard-Yenching Library, for example, has more than half a million cards in its catalogue, all recorded in Wade-Giles. "We cannot possibly cope with such a change now," says Librarian Wu. Similarly discouraged was the head archivist of the oriental manuscripts section of France's largest...
Shervert Frazier, a Harvard Medical School professor and psychiatrist in chief at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., reports that no patients are psychoanalyzed at his hospital. Frazier, himself "a card-carrying psychoanalyst," sees his own patients for only as long or short a time as he deems necessary, some for as little as 15 minutes, others for 2½ hours. Months may go by between visits, he says, but "when we see each other, these people really go to work...