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Word: hovers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the marital crisis, Susan nobly decides to give up her child rather than tell her husband the truth. But wait. Watching her hover tearfully at the bedside of the little girl, Smith decides that a child's place, after all, is with its mother, even if mother is a drunkard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...predigesting job takes some doing. Around each working computer hover young mathematicians with dreamy eyes. On desks flecked with frothy figures, they translate real-life problems into figure-language. It usually takes them much longer to prepare a problem than it takes the machine to solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Thinking Machine | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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