Word: equips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoken telephone number and matches its digits against sound patterns in her memory. Then she flashes numbered lights to show what she has heard. Audrey can be tuned to one man's vocal manners and will read his speech correctly 98% of the time. When Bell scientists equip her with a larger vocabulary and teach her to recognize anyone's speech, they hope to put her to work as a telephone operator...
Under the benign but urgent eye of the U.S., Japan is beginning to equip itself for defense. Japan's Safety Corps (embryo army) is training with U.S. Pershing tanks, bazookas, antiaircraft guns, heavy mortars, howitzers. This force, which now musters 80,000 men, will have 110,000 effectives by year's end. The new Japanese air force will start training next month at Hamamatsu, 140 miles southwest of Tokyo. The nation has already started production of her first postwar airplane, the Tachihi R-52, a slow, low-powered trainer-but a beginning...
...Korea, and let the South Koreans take over; most G.I.S agree with him on that score. But that this can be accomplished in a year's time is pure hogwash. It takes time, tradition and experience to build an army of 3,000,000, train them and equip them. It is plainly only wishful thinking, compounded of impatience and lack of foresight...
...return to the study of man, to face up once again to the "gigantic inquiry taken from the Old Testament: 'What is man that Thou art mindful of him?' . . . The immediate responsibility of American education to the United States and to human freedom is to equip the young with the ability and the disposition to think about the twofold proposition that the individual is valuable and within himself subject to law. The critical establishment of this dual statement, over which the whole world is now officially divided, entails at its center the study of history, poetry and philosophy...
...gallon jugs, moonshine sells in cities for about $2 a fifth. The deliveries are made by a new breed of rumrunner, drivers of souped-up cars which can hit 100 m.p.h. All but the amateurs equip them with truck springs in the rear to eliminate the telltale sag caused by heavy loads. The average fee for transportation is around $1.00 a gallon. Sold undiluted at the still for $4 a gallon, the juice still leaves the moonshiner with an operating profit of 200% or more...