Word: logarithm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory is simpler than rolling off a logarithm: set a small square within a larger one and, instead of living in the middle with a garden all around, live all around and put the garden in the middle. It is a natural solution to the problem of how to achieve privacy in crowded areas, but it has been slow coming to the U.S., which started off as a smalltown country whose settlers and their houses were few and far between-a place where people had to sit out front on a summer evening to see what was going on. Over...
Students should be competent to decide for themselves whether memorizing a fact is more convenient than having to look it up. Some may choose to learn logarithm tables; others to look up even the basic axioms of mathematics when a problem confronts them. But there is no reason why a student who can make sense of a historical situation by looking up the associated dates and names should not be permitted to do so--in the end his essay or his translation will either make sense or not--unless, of course, a teacher has nothing more to offer than...
...businessman in Trenton who wants to call the Western Electric Co. in Manhattan-but doesn't know the number-it is about as easy as falling off a logarithm: first he dials 2125551212 (Information in Manhattan), then 2125712345 for Western Electric. If he is lucky he won't have to give an extension number for the man he wants to talk to; if he is luckier, he can still remember why he was calling in the first place...
...probably have that walking-down-Hollywood-Boulevard-in-the-altogether feeling. However, Mr. White is, I think, oversimplifying. The very fact that we are in the atomic age defeats his argument. As more and more nations acquire the know-how and or the weapons themselves, the logarithm of danger will increase. We cannot be sure even today that "some 2nd lieutenant somewhere" will not out of ignorance or ennui press the button of our finality...