Word: robotized
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...find some way to set identical type simultaneously in two widely separated composing rooms. We solved the problem with a marvelous gadget called a Teletypesetter. This enables a man at a glorified electric typewriter right in our editorial offices to set type about 60 words a minute on robot linotype machines he has never seen-one 83 miles away in Philadelphia, the other 715 miles away in Chicago...
...that one cigaret was much like another, that the magic of any one brand for its smokers was a creation of silver-penned advertising wizards who should be put in their places. To prove it, Reader's Digest hunted up a laboratory with a cigaret-puffing robot, put it to work dragging on 24 specimens of each of seven brands...
...Spring Lake Invitation tournament; for the eighth time in its nine-year history; beating foxy, aggressive Wayne Sabin (2-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3) in the final; after a three-hour struggle; at the Bathing & Tennis Club, Spring Lake, N.J. A racquet-wielding robot on clay, who has a new model forehand each spring and trades it in every fall, Parker has been defeated only once in eight clay-court tournaments this year...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame, huge (6 ft. 2), horrific Lon Chaney Jr., complained he was getting heavier parts than his father ever got. Slumped gigantically against a Hollywood stage prop, he gratefully accepted a light from Cinemactress Anne Nagel, moaned: "I want to do character roles, not robot parts...
...Churchill when First Lord last year), is credited with discovering the secrets of German magnetic mines and how to beat them. Dr. Lindemann, whose friends call him "Prof," was a pioneer advocate of the present London balloon barrage, years ago vainly urged the Air Ministry to build fleets of robot planes which would be sent up by radio control to crash head-on into enemy bombers...