Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME covers were chosen because they were the only form in which so many pictures of world personalities were available. Czechs see very few pictures of world personalities these days. All they see are behind-the-Iron-Curtain personalities. The exhibit drew more crowds than ever before. We're not going to protest because this is the kind of minor day-to-day trouble you have running an American library in this part of the world. I'd have to be making protests every other...
...winning his first big fight in New York since he was banned in 1946 (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer), Roughhouse Rocky regained his old form as the best drawing card in fightdom. He will probably continue to be until the day he is foolhardy enough to fight a good man his own size-somebody like Sugar Ray Robinson...
...flash a complicated equation involving 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...
...flash a complicated equation involving 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...
...typical problem in education would appear like this: We are given letter grades in four coursed for a certain number of individuals. We would like to pool these letter grades to form a scale of scholastic achievement. Since the distribution of grades in the several courses are quite different, even more variable must be considered in the problem...