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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calculating Machines Can Yield National Industrial Production Goals, Expert Says | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Over 600 physicists, mathematicians, economists, engineers, and industrialists from all parts of the country and abroad attended the four-day Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machines at the Computation Laboratory and observed the first public demonstration of this device. The machine will be used by the United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...drum will hold 4000 in sequence, might read: "select the Number in A-1 and add to it the Number in B-2 and put the sum in C-3." Such a command can be given and the work accomplished by the computing section of the machine every four thousandth of a second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...band (This Is Jazz: II, 2 12-inch records) was composed of older players, men who for the most part had given up music until 1943, when Ory put them together for a West Coast tour. These four sides, cut in 1947, are fine examples of a Dixieland that even the purists will like; yet neither old age-Edward Ory was born in 1889-nor an old style can make these records dated...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey jr., | Title: JAZZ | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Since the new government took over in Czechoslovakia, control of that country's Union of Students has passed to Action Committees in each of the universities. These Committees, whose members represent all four major political parties, were rejustituted in February, 1948, by Premier Gottwald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Discloses Student Life Abroad | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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