Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while after that somebody will invent a boxing referee machine and a traffic cop machine and then a district judge machine, and the silence will become general. We will back down and let the Speed Graphic and the electronic computer move in to eliminate our mistakes. When that time comes they might as well close the college and put the students on learning dictation, for the sporting element, the element of mischance, the umpire element, will have disappeared. In its place will sit the unblinking machine, confident, proficient, and always right...
...halves of the same Camembert cheese, one carrying a bigger price tag than the other, French housewives "always" ("You hear me-always") ask for the more expensive piece. ¶Presented with both halves of the same bolt of cloth, customers not only buy the higher-priced half but actually invent reasons justifying the price difference...
...Noah Webster had not been born," says Pyles, "we should have had to invent him," for he became the very symbol of the new schoolmarm tradition. "He thought of himself, with uncharacteristic modesty, as the Prompter, 'the man who . . . sits behind the scenes, looks over the rehearser, and with a moderate voice corrects him when wrong . . .' More than any other single person, he shaped the course of American English, for he supplied us with the schoolmaster's authority which we needed for linguistic self-confidence...
...Carl conceded, "is the best we can do in the circumstances, and if we did not have it we would have to invent something very like it." Nonetheless, he added in disillusion, "we established at San Francisco an organization which could no doubt protect the world against a marauding mouse but not against any real danger from a tiger...
...seems the Russians didn't invent the submarine after all. According to United Artists in its latest release Mutiny, a handmade submarine of waxed hickory construction was used in the war of 1812 to sink a 70-gun ship-of-the-line. This film should please NROTC students and those who like their action stacatto...