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Word: procession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Citizens of Vancouver | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...begin to run amok. Figures can bristle like barbed-wire barriers between his data and his conclusions. He finds that before he can get on with his work, he must multiply numbers as long as his middle finger, divide them, add them, square them, extract their roots. Sometimes a process involving a complicated equation with many variables must be repeated thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. Often the scientist gives up in despair. Many important lines of research have bogged down in a morass of figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 600 Men & a Machine | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 600 Men & a Machine | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...decade at Kansas City Bishop O'Hara has put up 30 churches in rural counties, 25 of which had never before had a Catholic church. He is now in the process of building a church in Hickory County-the only county in the diocese which is still without one. "There is not a single Catholic family in Hickory County," said Bishop O'Hara last week. "But." he added "there will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Busy Bishop | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...necessarily too grumbly about this--or at least I should not like to have you think that he is. He is perfectly able to accept, for a time being, a system of kinetc equations embracing the data of photosynthesis as picturing the known essence of the mechanism of this process. He also wants to learn the molecular inwardness of the matter, the kinetic mechanism with all its defects serving as a ladder toward specific experimental inquiry. He is not so crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when he peers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calculating Machines Can Yield National Industrial Production Goals, Expert Says | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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