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...Hour. Practical computermen, some of whom deplore McCulloch's analogies, agree with him on one point: that the machines need better memories. The machines are already quicker than the brain: their vacuum tubes act 1 ,000 times faster than neurons. But their poor memories (rudimentary compared to the brain's) limit their thinking abilities. The punched tapes and cards that some of them spew out are not real internal memories, since they cannot be consulted quickly. They are more like reference libraries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Thinking Machine | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...protect himself, Saadi thought up a quick, slick deal. He assembled his legislature, submitted his resignation as governor, then had the deputies re-elect him to his old job in the Senate. But President Perón was quicker. He intervened (i.e., dismissed the governor and legislature) in Catamarca and dated the intervention back 24 hours, thus nullifying Saadi's maneuvers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Quicker Deal | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Well, our team is GREEN. DESIMONE. But TEHAN is quicker than the IZZI and we'll give 'em a SOCCORSO. New give me a little THOMPSON, or ALTIERI you limb from limb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bemused Hu Flung Sees Bruno Baffled | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...Ethel Barrymore, in the part of the dying old aristocrat, there can be nothing but praise. The most striking "character" in the movie, her quick wit and quicker tongue provide some of the sharpest and best-aimed assaults the film can offer. Her advice to Pinky, "Be yourself," is the key to understanding the moral and psychological conflict which are presented...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...single-voiced Soviet press, savage denunciations of the "Tito clique" crowded attacks on the "Anglo-American warmongers" off the front page. A Red army paper said that Tito would suffer the same fate "as Hitler and Mussolini, only this time much quicker." Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet Deputy Premier and Stalin's longtime pal, called upon the Red faithful to rally together for the grand push against Yugoslavia. He also gave them a significant definition of what it means to be a good Communist. "A proletarian internationalist," said he, "is one who, without any conditions, openly and honestly ... is ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Thunder Out of Russia | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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