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Property owners around the lot on which the church is being built registered a complaint against the church officials, requesting that they obey the zoning laws. In a hearing on January 6, the charge was uphold, and now plans were drawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work Resumes on Lutheran Church | 4/26/1950 | See Source »

...Buddhist monk may not preach until the congregation asks him to. He usually asks that they gain bunya by agreeing (for one day, not for life) to obey five commandments: 1) thou shalt not kill anything, not even the mosquito that bites you, 2) nor steal, 3) nor lie, 4) nor commit adultery, 5) nor take intoxicating drinks. Many Siamese strike a balance between bunya and bapa by agreeing to observe commandments 4 and 5 only on alternate days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Harvard Annex" might consider themselves as "...collegiate guardians of good morals and good order." This "doormat to Heaven" conception of a woman's place in the world was the condescending side of the masculine philosophy embodied in the Chinese proverb that "the three virtues of women are to obey the father, to obey the husband, to obey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'A Woman's Place...' | 2/8/1950 | See Source »

...Language. The machines prefer such numbers because their essential parts (electrical relays or vacuum tubes acting like swift relays) obey only two commands: yes or no-i.e., an electrical signal or no signal. So all information fed into the machines has to be predigested into yes-or-no binary arithmetic. Any number, however large, can be expressed in this form. So can elaborate equations like those from the fission problem done for Princeton by the I.B.M. machine. Even languages can be translated in binary numbers. (One way: making different numbers stand for each character, syllable or word.) Any sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Thinking Machine | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Student engineers say that this radiation regulation is obsolete and grossly impractical. They say it may be impossible for a college station both to obey the rule and be heard. Sometime this spring student networks are to be given an FCC hearing to present this basic objection. In view of the impending hearing, the Commission's impatience to enforce its rules on WHRB seems even more surprising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rest Is Silence | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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