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Word: randomness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many players at Harvard who were questioned at random would welcome spring practice...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Controversy Over Spring Football Revived by Poll Conducted at Yale | 2/8/1961 | See Source »

...Stretch (Lion International), a rock pile farce from Britain that also features Funnyman Sellers, points up one of the minor hazards of his career: moviegoers who see him in one picture often cannot recognize him in the next. His roles apparently affect his chemistry, but not at random; he is a controlled chameleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Controlled Chameleon | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...complicated that to copy it artificially would be practically impossible. But, according to Williams, solving the problem of copying the brain is neither necessary nor desirable, since nature did not design it for intelligence. "The brain of man, like that of other vertebrates, is an item of random design to meet one basic purpose: survival. The fact that it has outthought things like saber-toothed tigers is no evidence that it is particularly apt for abstract thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brains by Design | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

PARODIES-AN ANTHOLOGY FROM CHAUCER TO BEERBOHM AND AFTER (574 pp.) -Dwight Macdonald-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unstuffed Owl | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

SHADOWS IN THE GRASS (149 pp.)-Isak Dlnesen-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lioness | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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