Word: fed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Into this mechanical mind" said Dr. Bush, "can be fed the conditions of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches...
...squabble last week arose over a drink of brandy. The Vitaphone Co. and one John T. Adams were in court; Mr. Adams battling for $1,250 which he feels Vitaphone owes him as part of a $15,000 salary as musical director. Mr. Adams fed Mary Lewis stimulant in a teacup, so ran the testimony, and her resulting record of the Barcarole (Tales of Hoffman) showed voice strain, was worthless...
...attack of questionnaires. One would think that some simple entries about the student looking for a job would be enough for the bureau, seeing that the applicant's character, circumstances and attainments have been investigated to exhaustion before his admission to the university. But the bureau files must be fed with questionnaires more and more and more inquisitive, according to "The Crimson," under threats of blacklisting the applicants; the latter must now, as the latest requirement, file pictures of themselves and a budget of their year's income and proposed expenditures. Whoever has been wound in coils of bureaucratic tape...
...California Institute of Technology report on another summer's investigation of the all-penetrating ether vibrations, or universal rays, detected a quarter-century ago but not measured until two years ago, by Dr. Millikan. New measurements, taken with instruments eight times as sensitive as before, in snow-fed lakes at high altitudes in Bolivia and California, showed the rays to have twice the penetration Dr. Millikan last reported. They reached his instruments through 120 feet of water, the equivalent of eleven feet of lead, the X- ray-stopping metal. Impinging on the earth from an unknown source...
Nevertheless, shoulder-slapping, grips and the password, "Howdy, Pap!" were not entirely laid aside before the Mooses sat down to discuss their concrete program. The word "pap" does not connote, to Mooses, a bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...