Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals gave the Children's Theatre "costumes, scenery, anything else they wanted, free under the impression--which the group failed to correct--that they were going to direct their profits toward a Harvard theatre," Robert F. Ballard '56, president of the Theatricals, said...
Tory Sir Ian Horobin brought up Yalta and its disclosures about Roosevelt's remark to Stalin that Churchill would have strong objections to giving up the colony of Hong Kong. "Strong objections," Churchill rumbled, "that was certainly correct." He paused a moment and then, in a lionlike voice, added: "-And even an understatement...
...brains will be used not only for paperwork problems, but to operate factories, to run auto production lines or any plant where a process can be reduced to a preset, repetitive system. Swiftly and obediently, the big robot will start and stop production lines, supervise all the machines, correct faulty workmanship, inspect the finished product, package it and ship it out to U.S. consumers...
Beyond office paper work, the entire horizon of factory automation is beginning to open up for electronics. While U.S. industry has always had automatic machines, a whole new family of "feedback" controls is growing up which not only run the machines, but also correct their mistakes, order the machines to rework defective parts until they are perfect. Such feedback controls are the forerunner of real automation. Linked together, they will make automated production lines. A form of the new automation is already at work making telephone relays for Western Electric, acetylene gas and carbide for the National Carbide division...
...West Coast aircraft company's $1,128,000 contour milling machine, which will soon be built to work any known metal into as many as 18 shapes automatically, correct itself with a feedback control keyed to magnetic tape...