Word: pocketing
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...Although my father will not allow me to use his pocket calculator to do my arithmetic assignments, I have found it very useful in completing my geography homework. I now know that the capital of Idaho is 4 times...
...that standards in the proper wearing of the National Park Service uniform seem to have dropped. In reality, they have not. Name tag and badge should be worn on the outside of a Park Service jacket. The tie tack should be located midway between the buttons of the breast pocket. In addition, moccasins are not considered proper footwear. It is no wonder that grizzlies in Yellowstone thought their eyes were deceiving them...
That August, the young artist-of whom an acquaintance testified that "a person more invariably gentle, kind, considerate and affectionate did not exist"-had tucked a spring-loaded knife into his pocket and gone for a walk in Cobham Park with his father, a retired chemist and seller of "fine, healthy leeches." Under the delusion that he was an avenging agent of the Egyptian god Osiris and his father a demonic envoy, Richard stabbed him. By the time Robert Dadd's gory corpse was found in the grass, the young man was on his way to Europe, planning...
...Pocket calculators, designed originally to assist accountants and engineers, are rapidly becoming everyman's instant genie. Worldwide sales of these minicomputers are expected to top 13 million this year and are growing in the U.S. alone at the rate of 400% annually. As prices drop (one model was selling for only $22 last week), consumers are snapping them up to check cost-per-unit prices at the supermarket, balance checkbooks, figure out tax returns and do their schoolwork. But all work and no play makes even a calculator a dull gimmick, and now the little machines can be used...
These are not the only games calculators will play. They can perform mathematical magic acts undreamed of by their designers. An example: take a figure that is double your age. Add 5. Multiply by 50. Add the amount of change in your pocket, up to $1, and subtract the number of days in the year. Add 115. Divide by 100. The calculator will display two numbers to the left of the decimal point, two to the right, showing respectively your age and the correct amount of money...