Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech recognizer, called "Shoebox" because it is smaller than a shoe box, so far recognizes only 16 spoken words, including the ten digits and six arithmetical command words such as plus and minus. But this is no mean feat. Earlier attempts to make machines recognize spoken words have run into trouble because they tried to copy the human ear, which analyzes the complicated mixture of sound frequencies in human speech. IBM Engineer William C. Dersch, inventor of Shoebox, thinks that this is like designing an airplane by copying a bird's feathers. His machine does not depend on sound...
Bombarding the U.S. with fallout is just as much an act of aggression as if the Russians dropped the bomb itself on us. Just how much more of the "shoe thumper's insanity are we going to take...
...longtime fashion dictum, verified daily in millions of beauty parlors, that great beauty requires great personal suffering. By that standard, there should be nothing so lovely as a woman's feet. Through the ages, female toes, insteps and heels have been pummeled, prodded and ultimately propelled into shoes that resemble the human foot purely coincidentally and only occasionally. The pointed-toe look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor made a fortune amputating little toes, gradually gave way to a rounder toe before blunting off altogether into this year's square look. Once into the shoes...
Once associated with the 1940s, when lady lieutenants marched to war in sturdy, thick-heeled footwear, the low-heeled shoe is now regarded as both practical and elegant for evening and daytime...
...girl, determinedly fashionable even while fighting for her spike-heeled balance on the subway, change at the office to the good old loafers stashed in her desk. No more must suburban housewives, in town for a day's shopping and a night's entertainment, lug their evening shoes (concealed in paper bags) around with them until dinner and high-heel time. Says Designer David Evins, a pioneer of the walking shoe: "Women want to get away from the 4-in. needle heel. It has an artificial look. Today there is a feeling of desiring comfort and ease...