Word: digit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leisurely sip on their Scotch-and-waters, the Band vehemently eggs the Harvard charges onward with traditional cheers like "Shove that Ball" and "E to the x! dy! dx!/E to the y! dy!/cosine, secant, tangent, sine/three point one four one five nine/come on Harvard, give 'em the digit!" The latter cheer is called "Engineers...
Chatting with a neighbor recently, a Melbourne, Australia, carpenter named Terry Cooke confided that he was one digit away from the winning number in a $28,000 lottery. "I don't know whether I'm lucky or unlucky," he said. At the time the remark mystified the neighbor. Last week, after police swarmed into the neighborhood in search of Cooke, he understood. Cooke, actually Ronald Arthur Biggs, 39, was the only man still free of the 15 who halted a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in 1963 and looted it of $7,300,000. Caught and sentenced...
...largest, came to the aid of cash-short consumers by installing an automatic "cash dispenser" outside one of its branches in San Francisco. Anyone with a checking account at the bank can withdraw $25 simply by inserting a plastic identification card and punching a code number on a ten-digit keyboard. The machine verifies the information by means of electronic sensors, then slips the money to the customer through another slot. It keeps the card, which is returned by mail. The withdrawal is deducted from the depositor's checking account, along with a 1% service charge. If a card...
Purchasers may find that their years of work are only just beginning. The kit's mathematical potential for producing different compositions adds up to a 281-digit figure, or 5,971,415,683,544,067, followed by 265 zeros. Which means, theoretically anyway, that a diehard-and his heirs-can create a different design every day just about from here to eternity...
...both, the drug was prescribed under its British trade name, Distaval, one of the innumerable synonyms for thalidomide.* By whatever name, thalidomide had tragic effects on thousands of the unborn. David was born with neither arms nor legs. Richard has legs but no arms and only a single digit projecting from his right shoulder...