Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recollections (numbers that they might need later) on punched cards, tapes or magnetized surfaces. It took a considerable time to recall them and put them to use. SEAC does its remembering with long tubes filled with mercury. Sound waves coded to represent numbers shoot through the tubes. When they reach the far end, electric repeaters bat them back again. The numbers echo back & forth in the mercury until they are needed in the machine's computations. Then they can be "brought to mind" in 168 millionths of a second...
...this trend continues, there will soon be no purpose in a spelling bee. When we reach phonetic spelling (it will then be fonetic), the stupid will be able to spell as well as the bright...
...over a crime committed by a German slave in a Nazi concentration camp. Though the men in the long beards and skullcaps argued in the streets for hours, there seemed no sure way of deciding whether it was a case of mistaken identity or of a murderer beyond the reach...
...cash in their pockets. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that average weekly earnings for U.S. production workers hit $57.50 in May, highest in history. Nonagricultural employment also rose to 43.2 million in May, a new high for the year, while total U.S. employment was expected to reach well over 60 million this summer...
...RUSSIA REACH ACCORD; ATOMIC POWER HARNESSED TO PEACE