Word: inspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human brain as the first industrial revolution devalued the human arm. He points out that only a few hand workers can now compete with power-driven machines. Soon, he warns, there will be wholly automatic factories with artificial brains keeping track of every process. They will order raw materials, inspect them, store them, route them through the plant. They will pay bills, blow the factory whistle and pay the help...
...most likely man to help fleece a grand-duke in a gentle game of poker, unaware that the peer is already flat broke. In the end, Young gets his, the grand-duke gets his money back, Hope gets the grand-duke's daughter, and the audience settles back to inspect the second half of the double bill, firm in the conviction that Hope has seen better movie days...
...University of Brazil's Medical School, where Physician de Barros got his degree in 1923, he handed out diplomas to the graduating class. He strode off to inspect the Centro Adhemar de Barros, a free clinic which he supports; lunched with 200 taxi drivers, dined with Benedito Valladares, chief of President Dutra's copa e cozinha (pantry and kitchen) cabinet. At a churrasco (gaucho barbecue) in the working-class district of Penha, someone threw an egg, spattering yolk over Adhemar's shirt. Snorted Adhemar: "A Communist." He called twice on Dutra, attended Mass, visited headquarters...