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...people are on the whole reluctant to believe even what their world's most honest press can learn for them about War II. How skeptical the U. S. public is about war news, even that originating from its own Capital, was made digit-plain last week by a FORTUNE survey of U. S. credulity...
...surges within most individuals an irresistible impulse either to carry off the placard and relax it against the faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove all friction between the wall...
...behind them when they posted their scores at the end of the round: 77 for the Big Haig, 79 for the Little Haig. Next day, Father & Son got 75 and 78 respectively, bowed out of the tournament.* Father Hagen's two-round score of 152 was just one digit too high to include him among the 66 low scorers who qualified for the 36-hole final...
Easy Money is a two-and-a-half-hour afternoon broadcast over WPG (Atlantic City). Presenting riddles at five-minute intervals, the station pays $1 to the listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities...
...Uhler admitted that there might be a slight error in the last digit of one of his values but he had checked and rechecked to hold the possible error to a minimum. "Even a single false digit," said he, "in the published value of a basic constant can cause incalculable loss of time and energy...