Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine's range of acceptance is strictly limited. It cannot examine a field and a pretty girl, and conclude from the data available which would be more worth cultivating. Such semi-tangibles are not for it. Figures alone it accepts, in floods and mazes. Quick as a midget's wink, it adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, raises to powers, extracts roots (square or better). It blends the figures together, mixes them with constants such as the speed of light. "It's a robot," says Dr. Aiken, "and does just what it's told...
Minnesota's beefy Harold Knutson then introduced the first bill: his pet project to cut 20% off taxes on personal incomes up to $302,000, and 10½% above that. In quick succession came revised versions of the Case bill to clip the powers of labor, and a measure by Michigan's anti-labor Clare Hoffman to throw out portal-to-portal pay suits (see BUSINESS), even those already pending...
...works. Why give it all up? For a reason of his own, Caniff wanted more. In Florida, when he was 18, he was bitten by a mosquito and got phlebitis, an inflammation of the veins that made the Army-and insurance doctors-turn him down. Because of his quick-clotting blood, says Caniff, "even a bad bump on the leg could bump...
...quick points by Hauptfuhrer and the steady floor play of Captain Saul Mariaschin propelled Harvard to an 11 to 6 lead before Cornell could begin hacking away at the difference. With 13 minutes gone by, a long overhead set by Peterson and Jim Gale's pivot sent the Redmen ahead...
Almost simultaneously a quick municipal police raid on Parkhurst's suite in the Back Bay Apartments on 1572 Massachusetts Avenue yielded not only stacks of his fellow students' bursars cards, which he used as false identification to cash his looted checks, but "two truck-loads" of stolen property, according to Chief Inspector P. F. Ready...