Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occupied the space of a two-car garage. Yet ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was, in retrospect, a dimwit. When it worked, it did so only for short bursts because its tubes kept burning out. Built to calculate artillery firing tables, the half-million dollar ENIAC could perform 5,000 additions or subtractions per second. Today almost any home computer, costing only a few hundred dollars, can outperform poor old ENIAC as a "number cruncher...
...Objection, which refers not to any romantic advances by Babbage but to the age-old question of whether a machine can be made to think. Objected Lady Lovelace: "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform...
...seldom seen by journalists," said Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss after this week's cover story on Christian workers overseas had taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen squatting men until early...
...will perform the Prokofiev Piano Concerto opus 10 in D-Flat Major with the HRO in March...
Once a year, figure skaters in the Harvard community get a chance to perform some of their most intricate stunts in the Eliot House-sponsored "Evening of Champions," and then they seem to just disappear. But Elise Davison, a freshman who made her Jimmy Fund show debut this year, is still...