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Word: robots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...doesn't the Army try robot soldiers, with the officers completely stationed in the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1951 | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Luxury of Floors. The company fights, constantly loses men whom their comrades hardly have time to mourn. Once in a while, they are sent back for a rest where a dry floor in a shattered building is a treasured luxury and each fighting robot becomes briefly an individual with opinions. Wilson's dialogue is good and true, peppered with obscenities that do not offend because they are used with a naturalness free of novelist's guile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Way It Really Was | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Last Friday and Saturday, M.I.T.'s "Dramashop" produced Karel Capek's "R.U.R."--Rossum's Universal Robots--at Boston's Peabody Playhouse. Capek's play, which describes a future society dominated by robets, has been repeated reasonably often during the last 20 years; it was a logical choice for a robot-minded group of students...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 5/10/1950 | See Source »

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