Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team ran through signal drills yesterday at a fast clip, started work on the Lions' formations, and got in some shots at the dummies. Valpey was shifting men to cover in the holes made by the injuries--shifting that began during the game Saturday, when Houston, Kenary, Bender, and Moffie got their bumps...
...thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...
...made by those who had sold the pound short-speculators and merchants who have been buying in Britain. The merchants had done this to protect themselves, in case of devaluation, from losses on goods ordered at the old rate of $4.03. The speculators had simply gambled on a fast profit. They made it. They had been able to sell short by putting up margins of as little as 25%, thus doubling their money. No one knew how big the short position in pounds had been. (One Briton gave the ridiculous estimate of ?2 billion.) But it was large...
...last week the lowly onion was back with a rush; it was the hottest commodity* on the exchange and had pushed aside such heavily traded commodities as butter & eggs. Hour after hour, shirtsleeved brokers bid high & fast fof November futures, sending the price of a 50-lb. sack up as much as 50? in a day (the maximum permitted). More onions would be traded this month, experts estimated, than in all of 1948, when a record 21,214 carlots changed hands...
...models of individual biological processes. Such models, both mathematical and material, have of course played a considerable role in general physiology,--as aids to the clarification and the concreteness of thinking, and as springboards for new experiments. Somewhat crudely put, but not unfairly the question has arisen: Do complex, fast, computation devices provide an effective model of mental processes, or even of one general class of human cerebral operations?--even to the extent that such machines, with developments of kinds now foreseeable, may be used to serve as surrogate for human decisions or actions...