Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rides Service was deemed a success except for a $40 expenditure on publicity fliers which were thrown out in housecleaning. The Service will be given to the Crimson Key beginning next Monday since it can be handled by them with no extra expense...
...Key Contributions. No list of Von Neumann's honors and achievements more than hints at the strange, exciting world in which he lived so cheerily. His mathematical theories-e.g., set theory, ergodic theory-mean little to most laymen, but many of them have a way of showing up in unexpected and important places. His famous Theory of Games, for instance, is used to figure Air Force strategy. A whole school of mathematical economists is applying it to economic and sociological problems, including the behavior of the stock market...
...Neumann lived in an age of warlike science, but not all of his practical work was concerned with war. He made key contributions to the mathematics of giant computing machines, and although computers using his theories are essential for designing thermonuclear weapons, they also have such important peacetime functions as forecasting the weather and controlling the operation of oil refineries...
...collector's paradise was within their reach. Among the enthusiastic exceptions are the two Hauge brothers, Victor and Osborne, who with Osborne's wife Gratia were sent to Tokyo at the end of World War II, promptly fell in love with oriental ways and decided that the key to the mysterious East...
Worthy spoke of the Chinese Street Committees, calling them "the key to the country's future." The Committees, which are practically unknown to the West, are the regime's major device for keeping in touch with the people and ruling them on a local level...