Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maladjusted. In Manhattan, the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals informed the press that it had successfully treated a cat suffering from an eggnog hangover, might yet cure another that refused to eat until it had heard the scale played on a harmonica...
Said he: "The principal and perhaps the only solid hope for preventing the use of atomic energy for destruction on a scale that has not yet been disclosed is for peoples everywhere to come to understand . . . this new critter, the atom, and what it holds for evil and for good . . . and to understand thereby the opportunities that lie before...
...Spain? To Americans who had opposed the creation of an international police force because that would let Soviet troops into Palestine, the Zionists had an answer. If the Palestine problem were allowed to drift, there might well be full-scale civil war when the British withdrew, giving Russia the chance to turn Palestine into a pre-World War II Spain. And in that case, the U.S. would eventually be forced to intervene, and at greater cost...
With all this power, the computator really deals with only two figures zero and one. All numbers fed into it are translated into this "binary" scale before operations begin. Calculation is simplified by changing 6 into 110, 7 into 111, and 13 into...
...hopes to promote a rally featuring nationally important speakers, to precipitate a shower of letters and telegrams on Congress, and to set off simultaneous rallies in a number of other colleges. It will be something of a miracle if the Committee can accomplish this program on an important enough scale. But it is a miracle well worth a major effort to achieve, both on the part of the Committee itself, and on the part of the entire community...