Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oppenheimer also showed how the quantum phenomena and the Newtonian description of physics, though mutually exclusive, are both useful and essentially correct...
TIME [April 1] is quite correct in stating that "Western badgering and blustering is apt only to enhance the fanatic image of Nasser as champion of the Arabs." The U.S. policy of talking softly but cutting off Egypt's dollar income is much better than Britain's overexcited, frustrated yelps of outrage toward Egypt...
Brains for Automation. For industrial automation, the new computers can be hooked into other electronic-control devices such as servo-mechanisms, which sense and correct their own errors, run entire plants without human help. Beyond the computers, the age of electronics has produced hundreds of knowing gadgets for every use under the sun. There are electronic elevator systems with miniature electronic brains that automatically keep track of passenger demand, electronic "Ph meters" that can test with equal ease the acidity of California's lemon juice or the radioactivity of the AEC's plutonium, electronic "stopwatches" for industrial...
...dozens of plants closed-circuit TV systems are used as watchdogs over machinery, note and automatically correct or forestall errors in operation. In hospitals doctors use closed-circuit TV to teach other doctors the intricacies of heart surgery, while dentists have electronic drills that do not build up heat, are less painful than ordinary drills...
...raincoat must be tired-looking, and to be correct should have grimy rings around the collar and cuffs, and perhaps a torn pocket. The raincoat is to be worn to excess indoors, at Hayes-Bick's, for example, or in lecture, since besides the elements this garment is meant to fend off the hostilities of a mundane world, and by sheer yardage at that. A mutation in the foul-weather line is the army-surplus trenchcoat; while it does not have the buckles and straps and rings of a good Burberry, it is distinctively green and of a suitably rude...