Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans last week. To prevent alarm-spreading, a half-million G.I.s first isolated the target communities by cutting their outside communications, then searched all houses in the U.S. zone, stopped every person moving on the streets and roads. Some 15,000,000 Germans were sifted through the screen...
...forget," says Thomas, happily, "we get more up on that screen for 40? than anybody else in the business...
...night was pitch black, patched with fog and laced with rain which rattled like beans on the seamen's battle helmets. From the second ship in column, the lead ship Iowa was invisible. Japanese snooper planes appeared only as "blips" on the radar screen, then vanished, having failed to detect the fleet. The enemy coast was invisible to all but the magic eye of the gun directors. In another group, following, were British battleships such as the King George V, with ten 14-inch guns...
...Bush's "thinking" machine, which he calls "memex," would be a desk with a microfilm library inside and several translucent screens on top. In the library would be filed books, newspapers, notes, memoranda, photographs, etc. To refer to any item, a user would tap its code number on a keyboard-like dialing a phone number -and it would be projected on one of the screens. He could read page by page or skim. By means of dry photography (like facsimile), he could write marginal notes on the screen and have them reproduced on the microfilm...
...system and re-enter on a new path. The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association." The machine would mechanize this process by permanently tying together two or more items with code numbers. Thereafter, the same train of thought could be projected on a screen at will by tapping off the right code (recorded in a code book...