Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method the group used was to have students try to duplicate an IBM examination sheet which had been checked at random and which was at the time 500 miles away. This year the society will conduct the same experiments and will try to determine how personality traits affect the students' attempts to duplicate the sheet. Previous experience suggests that personality traits do have a bearing on extra-sensory perception...
...University's IBM machines allow 18 spaces for both last names and initials, and "this is usually more than enough," Cameron Lawrence, assistant to the Registrar, says. Not only was there no room for initials in Albrechtskirchinger's case, but it was also necessary to drop the final "r" from his 19-letter last name in order to squeeze him into the lists...
...hesitates to criticize a poll which was prepared over the course of two months with the help of the Social Relations Department (and corrected with its IBM machine). There can be little doubt, however, that the Council's recent Food Poll was poor. It asked the wrong questions right...
...poll, consisting of 16 questions on subjects ranging from nutrition to how well pork is cooked, will be tabulated on a Social Relations IBM machine and its results will be announced by Friday...
Besides processing registration data, the Registrar's office is also recording all grades. Kennedy said that with the help of a battery of IBM machines his office hopes to have marks on the way to students within two weeks...