Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the second year that the Key has run the traditional activities meeting. Last year the Key took it over from Phillips Brooks House, which had handled it for several years. The 1948 meeting was one of the Key's first official functions...
...opening of Moors Hall easing the 'Cliffe housing shortage, all dorm residents and the 131 girls in off-campus houses will now be able to take meals on one shift. Last year dorm students and off-campus affiliates ate in two settings. Graduates, however, will eat at a special second-shift hour in Whitman Hall...
...computing section of the machine, which carries out electronically the commands issued to it by the sequencing drum, can multiply two 16-dight numbers in a fraction over twelve thousands of a second. It can add these figures in one third of that time. Constants which are stored in the "memory system" also enable the arithmetic unit to compute automatically such functions as sine, cosine, and logarithms...
...sequence, might read: "select the Number in A-1 and add to it the Number in B-2 and put the sum in C-3." Such a command can be given and the work accomplished by the computing section of the machine every four thousandth of a second...
Upwards of 1000 delegates, representing 800,000 students in 307 member colleges and universities, packed the University of Illinois campus at Urbana this summer for the second annual congress of the National Student Association...