Word: howard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...papers fell back on man-in-the-street interviews and unsubstantiated rumors from "reliable Swedish sources." Almost alone the Hearst papers made a try at spine-chilling; the New York Journal-American ran a half-page picture showing Manhattan engulfed in atomic "waves of death and havoc." Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association dug up an "exclusive" story: RUSSIA HAS 4 ATOM PLANTS. (N.E.A. got the tip from an "escaped Soviet industrial official.") The New York World-Telegram's scareheads on the story overshadowed advice at the bottom of the page, which most of the press had taken...
Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37, Bruce Harriman '50, president of the Key, and Howard E. Houston '50, captain of the varsity football team, are the keynote speakers on the agenda...
Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
Professor Howard Aiken, co-inventor of the original calculating machine, and Director of the Harvard Computation Laboratory had general supervision of the project...