Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final speaker, for Yale, was Jim Britt, whose unctuous tones are familiar to those who follow the fortunes of Boston's baseball teams. He told a dirty joke, told a dreadful and moving story about Joe McCarthy, and split an infinitive or three...
...controversy over interpretation may soon come to a final settlement, when and if the Pope issues an "ex cathedra" statement. If the Pope rejects Father Feeney's doctrine, the Archbishop will not be able to allow the priest to go on leading souls into the ways of "bigotry and intolerance...
Computations of the machine are checked at several points for possible errors. During the mathematical operations in the arithmetic section of Mark III, answers are double-checked at every stage in the problem before going on to the next stage. To insure that the final typed results are correct, all numbers are recorded twice on the magnetic tape by two parallel and independent systems. Unless both numbers on the tape are identical, the striking action of the type bars sets off an alarm and stops the typewriters...
...same plan is followed on "Weary Blues," with Andrew Blakney's trumpet just before the final chorus the highlight here. "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" closes out the album; as Ory exhibits a lightness that seems incredible after his happy shouting phrases on the other sides, and guitarist Scott contributes a shouting, pushing vocal that shows a fine scorn for the loving spirit of his lyrics...
...most important significance in the design of the new Graduate Center is that it appears to mark Harvard's final acceptance of a new type architecture which has grown up in response to the needs of contemporary society and the potentialities of modern engineering...