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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To Monsanto, the great brain will mean unprecedented speed, accuracy and economy in every phase of its manifold chemical business. In just twelve machine-hours the brain will do 1,200 cost reports that normally take 1,800 man-hours; in barely two hours it will complete a financial statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Brain Builders | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

For those who still question the wisdom of going ahead with the H-bomb, Teller has words of firm faith: "We would be unfaithful to the tradition of Western civilization if we were to shy away from exploring the limits of human achievement. It is our specific duty as scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Work of Many Men | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

. . . No doubt, Mrs. Knight must belong to the school that believes our ancestors were apes (if Christ is a legend, what else can you believe?), that our world came into being from revolving gaseous matter. Now if she could explain who put the swirling gas into existence, I might discover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Whatever their faults, the novels have astonishing qualities. If many French women writers happily strip in public, that may be because, as 23-year-old Novelist Elisabeth Trévol puts it: "We are afraid to write a woman's book, so we try to deepen our voices. We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writing Women | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

With the student sleuths so grossly inept, the University would be foolish to spend its three hundred dollars to rebuild wooden bulletin boards in Mather. It could better use this sum to run a short course in detective-science, teaching young criminologists how to discover who burned the notice boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dragnet | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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