Word: lines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operator pushes buttons alongside the standard typewriter keyboard of the desk-size machine to select the desired type size and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
...estimated 635 Radcliffe upperclassmen will line up to register for the fall term today in Longfellow Hall...
...distinct questions, Crozier continued. "The adequate imitation of a given kind of end result as achieved by an organism does not at all imply that the mechanism whereby the organism acts or decides has been duplicated. For engineering purposes, as in the "no hands" operation of a production line, this may be quite immaterial (so long as men keep the surrogate in good working order). But the physiologists's job is different. What he seeks is not merely an overall model. He really looks for an understanding of the actual mechanisms whereby the organic, biological machine operates. An even partially...
...enrollment drop is in line with Provost Buck's plans to reduce the College to 4,300 by 1951. This is the first year that Harvard's reducing program is working out, since the Dean's Office miscalculated the effects of the draft last year and ended up with 400 more students than it expected...
...They comprised one of the first comprehensive studies ever undertaken to determine the effects of a highly industrial society on the individual and groups. Most famous of Professor Mayo's surveys is his treatise on the Western Electric Company's experiments on worker efficiency and phychology in specialized assembly line tasks. This book is a standard text in Social Relations...