Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were no complaints from Moscow. The event was casually ticked off in a 74-line item in the back pages of Soviet newspapers, but the Russian capital hummed with speculation about the bomb. Washington noted that Joseph Stalin had advanced by a full week the agreed date for his declaration of war on Japan. That was taken as official Soviet recognition of how fast the bomb might...
...South, there were many who had stopped and thought. Said the New Orleans Item: "Truly there is no worse influence in high life than Senator Bilbo. ... He is a disgrace to Mississippi . . . and to the nation...
...Bush's "thinking" machine, which he calls "memex," would be a desk with a microfilm library inside and several translucent screens on top. In the library would be filed books, newspapers, notes, memoranda, photographs, etc. To refer to any item, a user would tap its code number on a keyboard-like dialing a phone number -and it would be projected on one of the screens. He could read page by page or skim. By means of dry photography (like facsimile), he could write marginal notes on the screen and have them reproduced on the microfilm...
Give Me a Train of Thought. The chief trouble with libraries, says Bush, is that information has to be tracked down through an intricate indexing system. "Having found one item . . . one has to emerge from the system and re-enter on a new path. The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association." The machine would mechanize this process by permanently tying together two or more items with code numbers. Thereafter, the same train of thought could be projected on a screen at will by tapping off the right code (recorded in a code book...
News was the main item on the daily (eight-hour) fare. ABSIE broadcast the news in seven languages, and also presented at dictation speed a special program of news for the use of the underground press. ABSIE puffed up its straight news reports with talks by such exiled leaders as King Haakon and Jan Masaryk...