Word: kellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine is a considerable improvement on similar prewar devices, which were restricted to taking messages of less than 30 seconds. A German invention, it was developed during the war by Ernst Keller, a young ballistics expert for the Swiss company which made the famed Oerlikon antiaircraft gun. He worked out an elaborate system of acoustic relays for translating the instructions given the machine into its robot responses...
...Manhattan's Cooper Union forum and onetime Rutgers philosophy professor, served up this judgment in a unique anthology: Great Teachers, Portrayed by Those Who Studied under Them (Rutgers University Press, $3.50). Its 22 essays ranged from a profile of Anne Mansfield Sullivan by her only pupil, Helen Keller, to impressions of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Russell Lowell...
Blind, deaf Helen Keller had to stretch just as hard, merely to start living. At seven, more than five years after illness destroyed her vision and hearing, she felt a doll being thrust into her hands by a new friend. Writes Helen: "When I had played with [the doll] a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play. . . . I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed...
Chrysler Corp. reported a substantial first-quarter loss last week of $8,400,000, offset an even higher percentage of it ($7,200,000) with expected tax recoveries. But Chrysler President K. T. Keller was not very cheerful about the future. Said he: "The prospect for any substantial increase in the rate of production [now 50% of capacity] . . . is not good...
...ball games is traditionally confined to austere announcements of time, place and contestants. Up came the Yankees with ads in the best soap-opera style. Sample: "Can Washington's famous 'knucklebal' pitchers stop what experts call the sluggingest team in the League? Or will Di Maggio, Keller & Co. make mincemeat of the Senators' pitching staff? Come out to the ball game...