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...create powerful earth waves that travel in the earth's crust and deep through its interior. A powerful underground explosion registers on seismographs all over the world, and smaller explosions are detected at shorter distances. The fault of this system is that weak bomb waves are hard to distinguish from the waves of natural earthquakes. Some experts claim that underground explosions send very low-frequency (less than ten kilocycles) electromagnetic waves through the solid rock. Since earthquakes do not do this, a special underground receiver might be able to distinguish them from nuclear explosions...
Once he had learned to distinguish between Wright and God, Pastor Vergis found the architect reassuring and even reverent. "Mr. Wright used to say, 'We'll all be right here, in the palm of His hand,' " recalled the pastor, cupping his hands as Wright had. In the concrete and steel teacup church that followed the pattern of his cupped hands. Wright ringed the rim with a wide balcony to bring more worshipers closer to the altar...
...machine's first tests was to distinguish sonar signals bounced off a submarine from those bounced off a porpoise, the ocean floor, or schools of fish. Even an ordinary computer could solve the same problem, but only after a tedious programing telling it exactly how. The Cybertron was merely fed a variety of sounds -several thousand-and after some diligent work by Witt on the goof button, it soon learned to discriminate infallibly. The Cybertron responds by flashing lights on its console, can give not only "yes" (the submarine) and "no" (the porpoise) answers but a broad variety...
...Fear, his first novel, in the high, narrow Victorian house in Mecosta, Mich. (pop. 300), built by his great-grandfather. Kirk, a bachelor, occupies the house with an unmarried great-aunt, spends much of his time studying the family ghosts, whose personalities he claims to be able to distinguish...
...There is not that much variation between the academic records of the undergraduate organizations," Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, declared. He, like Owen and Bender, sees no definite factors which distinguish the athlete as a student from other "types" of undergraduates...