Word: midget
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...machine's range of acceptance is strictly limited. It cannot examine a field and a pretty girl, and conclude from the data available which would be more worth cultivating. Such semi-tangibles are not for it. Figures alone it accepts, in floods and mazes. Quick as a midget's wink, it adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, raises to powers, extracts roots (square or better). It blends the figures together, mixes them with constants such as the speed of light. "It's a robot," says Dr. Aiken, "and does just what it's told...
...Shanghai, we hear, a civilian must spend $3,000 U.S. to have one installed where one hasn't been before). By doggedness, we dug up a second-hand bathtub and seat toilet ($750 U.S.; new equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped from $60 to $110 U.S. a ton; and at that it's partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat this winter. The Japs made scrap of most of China's radiators and Nanking electric power is so rationed that electric...
Suitcase Furnace Stewart-Warner Corp. last week unwrapped one of its prize postwar items: a midget furnace capable of heating 2½ rooms. Developed from airplane heaters used during the war, the furnace weighs 70 pounds, is not much larger than a suitcase. The furnace burns natural, manufactured or bottled gas in a completely enclosed flame. Air is brought in-and waste gases expelled-through pipes to the outside of the house...
...William Saroyan. With Julie Haydon the only holdover from the original cast, it's still a very good play. Characters like the Arab and Nick and McCarthy are indestructible, even on the borscht circuit. Regardless of who asks it, "Did you ever fall in love with a 39 pound midget?" will always be a funny line...
...they don red flannels and carry cow bells. We see a portrait, with two names under it. We hear a tinkling, and then the rapping of bits of metal as the blank yellow is dotted with significant black. We see a wooden chair with a large back, and a midget sitting in this throne of giants. We see a gracious, skillful, friendly leader sitting surrounded by functional and orderly rocks, and thereby are reminded of countless helping hands stretched out behind the closed doors that always opened at the magic words. We feel once more the surge of unmitigated...