Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail," and "all men . . ." Its final edict was simple: Vag was to be present at a certain place at a certain time for a "veteran's" physical exam. He was to fill out the big white form and bring it. Above all, he was not to forget the white form...
...machine accepts information, generally in the form of figures represented by small holes punched in a paper tape. It salts them away in a kind of "memory." (Dr. Aiken prefers "the relatively modest term: storage of numbers.") Then it combines them into conclusions, as human brains try and often fail to do. Unlike most human brains, it stops when it makes a mistake...
...there had been rape, widespread looting and disorderliness. What was worse, most Europeans got the impression from extensive U.S. Army black marketing that most Americans will do anything for money. Nor could the billeting of U.S. officers' families in comfortable houses amidst a ruined people (quite justified) fail to cause ill will. The stare with which the children of the conquerors confronted the children of the conquered (see cut) might be prolonged uncomfortably for generations...
Denials of "thinking machines" notwithstanding, an observer of Mark I in its luxurious new setting cannot fail to be impressed with the uncanny gyrations of the monster. Making little more sound than an electric refrigerator, the machine literally swallows the problem in the form of a punched paper tape that moves inexorably into the sequence control mechanism, while but a few feet away an electromatie type writer pounds out row on row of lengthy numerical results. Three devices similar to the sequence mechanism can also be brought into play to introduce logarithmic tables, interpolating tables, or any other functions needed...
...Commerce Department, in a helpful little guidebook for veterans in search of a job, pointed out that it is risky to start a restaurant, because 80% fail or are sold out within five years. But it hastily added that running a restaurant can be good business and that the habit of eating will continue to grow...