Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beise hailed as "the greatest advance in bookkeeping in the history of banking." Beise's ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine-Automatic), tended by nine operators, can handle all the bookkeeping for 50,000 checking accounts, takes the place of 50 workers. Operators merely feed in checks and deposit slips, punch dollar amounts on ERMA's keyboard. The checks and slips have customers' account numbers coded on them in magnetized ink; by reading these, ERMA keeps track of withdrawals and deposits, figures out and prints monthly statements at 600 lines a minute, absorbs stop-payment orders, watches for overdrawing...
...only one respect was the Crimson outmaneuvered Saturday. The Band, celebrating the arrival of its new "biggest playable bass drum in the world," was beaten to the punch when the UMass band presented a visual drill which was almost identical to its own. The new drum, like the football team, began its career, however, with a satisfactorily loud bang.Tallback MATT BOTSFORD (40) leaps into the air on the Massachusetts 37 yard line to hit wingback JOHN SIMOURIAN downfield for Harvard's second touchdown late in the first quarter...
This was as much a surprise to McCurdy as the opposition for the varsity coach--in his fourth year as grand strategist--had figured on using his veteran runners to break up the one-two punch of Horn and Bill Lepkowski, UMass' second best runner, who eventually placed sixth...
...control of the Senate to the Democratic party. Dulles remained reluctant; the President was still bashful. It was Senator Walter George, Democratic chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who gave them impetus-and it was a rather sharp kick in the right place." Leader's punch line brought howls of delight from his audience. "As Governor of Pennsylvania," he said, "a very real pleasure will come to me. I will have the honor of welcoming as a permanent resident of our state, for seven days a week and 52 weeks a year, a former President...
From all sides came suggestions that the armed services should be "restrained" first, and much optimism about more punch for the pound (like Washington's more bang for the buck"). Bevanite joined Tory in cries for an immediate reduction in the two-year draft.-The press was full of features about wasteful and frivolous practices in the armed services (the R.A.F. colonel who had his batmen dress up in Louis XIV servant rig for a costume ball...