Word: selection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WELL, I went to see my adviser, who helped me select my studies for the yea. That is, he hypnotized me into thinking a lot of things I really don't see why I should know. However, as I don't seem to have what he called a 'startling predilection' for anything (my entrance exams divulged this), and as he is a pleasant young man who invited me to dinner next week, I allowed myself to be influenced...
...prisoners' weary hours with brandy, gin, whisky, cigarettes and regularly delivered copies of British racing forms. For a while the club kept an open stock of canned tidbits, but McKerrow soon had to lock them up because one dishonest prisoner took to pinching the stores. Each evening the select prisoners would dispatch willing warders to place their bets with local bookies...
...often been remarked," he says, "that any random sequence, if long enough, will contain all the answers." So a machine for solving problems too complex for the human brain should contain a mechanism that presents for consideration all the possible solutions. The machine's job will be to select the right one when it comes along...
...main difference between this and the Army's program, Jones said, is that an Air Force student will not be restricted to any particular courses as an Army student is. He may select, he explained, any course which will fit in with his field of concentration and still help his Air Force training. In addition, there may be a new course developed which is suited to AFROTC work...
After the wedding a select but friendly 250 gathered at the Truman home for a reception. After 30 minutes in the receiving line, bride and groom slipped away to catch a train for the first leg of their honeymoon in Nassau. Margaret Truman had not been the only important bride of the week, but when it was all said and done, hers was the wedding that gave the U.S. that next-door feeling even if the nation stood on tiptoe to catch every detail of the other...