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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bees. He got over a looping right to Fusari's chin, followed with a fusillade of rights & lefts. Fusari went down and the crowd of 31,092 came to its feet, filling the Polo Grounds with a frenzied roar. Rocky's dazed foe took a count of nine, came up wobbly and was chased into a corner by the most furious killer (in appearance, at least) in the prizefight business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steaks & Stymies | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Ringsiders were left to wonder what would happen next time Graziano fought someone his own size. Fusari, a welterweight who is twelve pounds lighter than Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Rocky, had made his heavier foe look ridiculous for most of the first nine rounds. Some of Rocky's haymakers missed by feet, not inches. In the second round, he missed a right so awkwardly that he landed on the seat of his pants-with a slight shove from Fusari. For playing the role of punching bag, and almost upsetting the dope, talented, clean-living Charlie Fusari collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steaks & Stymies | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Mark III do? For one thing, it can multiply two 16-digit numbers in a little more than twelve one-thousandths of a second. But this prodigious speed gives little idea of the machine's talents. Its strong point is its "inner memory." This "memory" consists of nine big aluminum cylinders revolving up to 7,200 r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism on the spinning cylinder's surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Citizens of Vancouver | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Citizens of Vancouver | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Mark III do? For one thing, it can multiply two 16-digit numbers in a little more than twelve one-thousandths of a second. But this prodigious speed gives little idea of the machine's talents. Its strong point is its "inner memory." This "memory" consists of nine big aluminum cylinders revolving up to 7,200 r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism on the spinning cylinder's surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 600 Men & a Machine | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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