Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...ever gathered together in northern Europe. By last week, 300 art historians and archeologists had swarmed into town to buzz among the assembled treasures, argue learnedly over dates and artists. The Vatican sent photographers to take pictures. The Belgian periodical Sa-uoir et Beaute brought out a special number singing the glories of ancient Tournai...
Jesse found that if he cut up his big calendar and pasted the numbers on bits of cardboard, he could teach beginners to read and count while pretending to be playing a game. He taught them "how to measure a field and figure the number of acres, how to figure the number of bushels in a wagon bed [or a] corn bin." Soon farmers from all over the valley, and from Chicken Creek and Unknown, too, began asking his pupils to measure their fields and count their bushels for them...
...good many of the 84, they found, had apparently decided early about their future. One out of four had majored in education at college. The next largest number had specialized in social or physical sciences; only six had picked the humanities ; of the whole group only half had taken a Ph.D...
...upperclass registration number falls below last year's when more than 700 sophomores, juniors, and seniors checked in at Long follow. A record crop of freshmen, however, keeps the total enrollment on a par with last year's mark of 940 students...