Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the heading, "Other Activities," there is this entry: "YARD PUNCHES: Every Wednesday afternoon punch is served in the shaded comfort of the Harvard Yard..." A little further down on the same page the following appears: "TOURS: One of the highlights of a summer session is the opportunity which a light study schedule provides for the students to see and enjoy the cultural, historical, and scenic attractions of New England...
...familiar shrine of well-intentioned protests, was jammed with 2,500 Britons and East European refugees (including the famed Polish World War II General Anders), who had gathered at a shilling a head to protest the forthcoming visit of Russians Khrushchev and Bulganin. The meeting was called by waspish Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge.* Resolving with a group of friends to "do something about these murderers coming here," Muggeridge had tried to rent London's own sedate Albert Hall for the occasion, but he was turned down cold. "They told me," he said, "that Billy Graham was all right...
Though automation has made a striking impact on U.S. industry, the great brain and the robot machine will never make the human mind and hand obsolete. In some companies automation is not practical. One manufacturer decided to convert all the clerical work to automatic processing by means of punch card order blanks that could be fed into machines...
...many of his customers ignored his punch card blanks, and the system broke down. He found that some orders were taking five days to fill by automation, so he went back to pencil and typewriters...
...serious contention before the season, the Elis came up to their final game with a chance to tie for first place. Scherer, of course, was the backbone of the team, but coach Murray Murdoch's emphasis on defensive play enabled Yale to make up for its lack of scoring punch...