Word: mb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girder are flexible in some degree. Both are also somewhat rigid. All objects, in fact, lie somewhere on the scale between extreme flexibility and extreme rigidity. So Newman has arbitrarily coined the Ruly word resilrig to cover the whole scale, and has added such prefixes as sli (slightly) and mb (substantially). In Ruly English, a bridge girder would be sliresilrig and a watch spring subresilrig. A properly trained computer would know the meaning exactly. It would not be confused by the fact that in unruly English a very flexible bridge is not nearly as flexible as a very rigid watch...
...first time, a nuclear-armed rocket had been fired from an airplane, and that event, one morning last week, opened up what the Air Force called "a new dimension" in the nation's defense against enemy bombers. The new-dimension rocket was the Air Force's MB-1, or Genie (formerly dubbed Ding Dong and High Card), manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Co. The Genie's nuclear punch, said an Air Force spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic Age, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But even...
...meeting will be held Sunday at 7:45 p.m. in Mallinckrodt MB-9. Austin Lake, sports columnist of the Boston American will present his views, but debate among the members will follow lines decided at the pre-meeting caucus. According to Hugh J. Schwartzburg '54, member of the Athenaeum Board of Governors, a number of members are prepared to defend some sort of subsidation of football players to improve the team...
Members of the Chemistry Department will speak at 4:30 p.m. today in Mallinckrodt MB-23 in an effort to sell chemistry to freshmen as a field of concentration...
President Conant will talk on "The Philosophical and Political Aspects of Valence" at 8 p.m. tonight in Mallinckrodt MB...