Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steady goaltending from Dudley's Oscar Swenson and Kirkland's Gordie Lunn may give the Rineharts enough defensive strength to offset the Wintergreen power. Rinehart captain and center Paul Brennan of Dudley can also count on a pair of sturdy defensemen in Kirkland's Mike Moskow and the Commuters' Art Tallas...
...captured much of (the bestselling novel's fun in an adaptation of Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants; Andy Griffith was convincing as the Georgia rookie with two left feet and an unconquerable spirit. Probably the week's most convincing drama was found on another pair of ABC shows. Pond's Theater proved again that Britain's late great John Galsworthy is one of TV's most serviceable playwrights: his The Silver Box carried a charge of stinging social criticism (a rich man and a poor man steal the same purse in turn...
...information to fill a 1,836-page Manhattan telephone book-any figure, word, chemical or mathematical symbol-and work the information at the rate of 7,200 unerringly logical operations per second. In its vast computing units (2,500 electronic tubes, three miles of wire) it can multiply a pair of 127-digit numbers and arrive at a 254-digit answer in one-third of a second. In a second it can add 4,000 five-digit figures or do 160 equally complicated long divisions. And at the end, it can produce its answers in any of four ways-flash...
...function beyond the capabilities of the machine: creative thought. Says Watson: "Our job is to make automatic a lot of things now done by slow and laborious human drudgery. A hundred years ago there was an industrial revolution in which seven to ten horsepower was put behind each pair of industrial hands in America. Today we're beginning to put horsepower behind office hands, electric energy in the place of brain power...
Thomson must be added to this illustrious pair. His single marks have not challenged the records of these two Yale greats, but when Yale tries to retain its outdoor Heptagonal title this spring, Thomson will be called upon to repeat his unparalleled achievement of last year...