Word: prefixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does what a human typesetter would do, adding spaces if necessary to fill out the line. When it comes to a word that has to be hyphenated, which happens about every five lines, it hesitates momentarily while it consults a quick-access memory. If the word has a recognizable prefix or a familiar ending, such as -ing or -tion, the memory tells the computer in millionths of a second how to hyphenate correctly...
...Only eight of the numbers can be used for the first digit of a central office code since 0 (zero), now used to dial the Operator, is also reserved for a future person-to-person prefix; 1 will be used for station-to-station calls...
...also just completed one of the most successful polltax drives in recent memory. And it will probably add great vigor to the liberal effort in the 1962 elections. Despite its definite liberal orientation, however, it continues to insist that it is "trying to build a Democratic Party without prefix or suffix...