Word: effortlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most effortless ways of earning money which the Bureau frequently offers is psychological testing. Budding psychologists and social relations centers request students to serve as "guinea pigs" for new IQ Tests...
World-Record Program. "Marvelous Mal" never runs a poor race, win or lose. Fortnight ago in Boston, he equaled the world indoor record of 1:10.2 for 600 yards (TIME, Feb. 9), but his deceptively effortless stride made it appear that he could have done even better. An official criticized him for not breaking the record, accused him of not trying. Ordinarily good-natured and tractable, Whitfield later bristled: "What did he want, blood...
...Fred Wilt. Last week at Madison Square Garden the Wanamaker had a new look and a new parade leader: a little (5 ft. 8½ in., 139 Ibs.), will-o'-the-wisp runner named Fred Dwyer, who scoots around a board track with the short, effortless strides of a warm...
When Karel Capek wrote these words in his 1920 play R.U.R., such a dream of effortless productivity seemed fantastic indeed. But this week, when Massachusetts Institute of Technology explained the operations of the first completely automatized milling machine, the idea no longer seemed quite so farfetched. Ranged beside the big milling machine, which looked like any other, were three formidable-looking banks of electronic devices, each of which decoded the "messages" punched out on a tape similar to teletype. When M.I.T.'s Associate Professor William Pease fed the tape into a transmitter, the huge machine swung into action, cutting...
...Violin and Orchestra, Op. 41 (David Oistrakh; State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R., the composer conducting; Vanguard). The best chance yet to hear one of the world's finest fiddlers; his tone has the warmth (but not the sentimentality) of Elman, his technique shades Heifetz. The music bubbles with effortless melody and humor. Recording : clear and immediate...