Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next time Graziano fought someone his own size. Fusari, a welterweight who is twelve pounds lighter than Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Rocky, had made his heavier foe look ridiculous for most of the first nine rounds. Some of Rocky's haymakers missed by feet, not inches. In the second round, he missed a right so awkwardly that he landed on the seat of his pants-with a slight shove from Fusari. For playing the role of punching bag, and almost upsetting the dope, talented, clean-living Charlie Fusari collected $24,437 (compared to Rocky...
...style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
Inner Memory. What can the Mark III do? For one thing, it can multiply two 16-digit numbers in a little more than twelve one-thousandths of a second. But this prodigious speed gives little idea of the machine's talents. Its strong point is its "inner memory." This "memory" consists of nine big aluminum cylinders revolving up to 7,200 r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism...
Inner Memory. What can the Mark III do? For one thing, it can multiply two 16-digit numbers in a little more than twelve one-thousandths of a second. But this prodigious speed gives little idea of the machine's talents. Its strong point is its "inner memory." This "memory" consists of nine big aluminum cylinders revolving up to 7,200 r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism...
...numbered 35-girls in pigtails and fresh cotton dresses, boys in faded, shabby shirts. They had come with their dinner baskets in their hands and battered, backless books under their arms. Not one wore shoes. There were 19-year-olds in the first grade, 14-year-olds in the second, and a twelve-year-old girl in the eighth...