Word: sine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample sentence from the test: "Again he mused, 'These laryngeal effulgences, I suppose, are the sine qua non of ethereal broadcasting.'" The NBC versions of key words: uh GEN; myoozd; luh RIN ji'l; i FUHL j'n s'z; suh POZ (not spoz); SI nee kwa NAHN; i THIER i'l; BRAWD kasting...
Said Jinnah: "I regret to say that I have failed in the task of converting Mr. Gandhi. . . ." Said Gandhi: "The failure is only socalled. It is an adjournment sine die" Said Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar, who arranged the meeting: "I'll begin to dig in the river again when...
Harvard's calculator adds or subtracts in a third of a second, multiplies in six seconds, calculates the sine of x in 88 seconds. It has solved in 19 hours a problem that took four operators three weeks on ordinary office calculators. Given guinea-pig birth and mortality rates, for example, it is capable of computing how many living progeny a pair of guinea pigs would have by St. Patrick's Day, 1968. It solves simultaneous linear algebraic equations, analyzes statistics, stores up the answers to difficult computations for future use in similar problems-and gets answers accurate...
...manglers galore in show business, but Jimmy has a poet's ear for the mot injuste ("Let me hear that high note, maestro ! . . . What a note ! . . . A promissory note, if I ever heard one!'") And Jimmy is a past master of timing-that comedian's sine qua non. In the grand old days of the comedy team of (Lou) Clayton, (Eddie) Jackson and Durante, which broke up in 1931, Jimmy led them in a repertory of nightclub shenanigans (elaborately punctuated by a disreputable-looking jazz band) which spiraled into the highest humorous mathematics...
Dick Seely and the orchestra will furnish the music. Scuttlebutt reports that a large turnout is expected. The price of tickets will be one dollar. This will be the outstanding recreational activity of the NTS sine last November...