Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economics A came into play in the Eliot House Grill last night when a Freshman rushed up to the counter and ordered two orangeades...
...spot this "something," they used the ultramodern technique of radioactive tracers. First they grew yeast cells in a solution containing radioactive phosphorus-32, whose uneasy atoms the cells built into certain of their proteins. With a Geiger counter, the scientists could follow these radioactive protein molecules...
...internal solution of her problems has long been considered a happy notion by exuberant students who throw their weight around, restrained only by the admonitory clucking of Yard cops. But in playing it cozy by failing to publicize the extent and frequency of the Parkhurst thefts, and recommend workable counter-steps, the University may well have cut off student noses to save itself face...
Winter's first blasts temporarily unsettled the enterprising student community nestled across the river in 84 onetime emergency government dwellings, but with a vigorous counter-attack supported by electric heaters, storm windows, and weather stripping Harvard Way residents have triumphed in the initial stages of the battle...
...prospective calculators will be able to accomplish problems that cannot be fully reasoned out in advance and capable of solution with homely paper and pencil. The revolution that the giant calculator has brought to mathematics is the conquest of time. Even Mark I, whose fundamental mechanisms are mechanical rotating counter wheels, can accelerate by 250 to 600 times the speed of ordinary calculation...