Word: skipped
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...overpowering urge to compute, as Levy describes it, has always seemed bizarre to outsiders. At M.I.T. and Stanford the true devotees would skip meals, drop classes and give up sleep and social lives to burrow deeper and deeper into their beloved electronic brains. Once they started on a project, they would regularly "wrap around," working day and night until, after 30 hours, they collapsed on the nearest cot or sofa. Programmers at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab eventually discovered that the space between the roof and false ceiling made a comfortable sleeping hutch, and some of them lived there...
While all three of his victories were decisive. Henry was most pleased with his performance in the hop, skip and jump competition...
More than 5000 Harvard students will skip dinner one night this month in the annual Oxfam Fast for a World Harvest, according to student organizers...
Drinkers and musicians alike said yesterday they would miss the bar's special ambience. "As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it can't be replaced," said Skip Welch, a roadie for The Neats, a Cambridge band that appeared regularly at the club. Drummer Perry Hanley added that he was confident Simpkins would start a new bar in the area. "I have a lot of faith in the guy," he said...
Relieved of the obligation of looking at these photographs, the reader can smartly proceed to skip Eruntics, the monumental work of one Reginald Gulliver. He, as a few people will some day know and then immediately forget, is the one who teaches bacteria to communicate in English. An introduction to his accomplishment more than suffices: "The description of experiments which occupies later chapters of Eruntics is unbelievably boring by virtue of its pedantry, prolixity, and continued interlarding of the text with photograms, tables, and graphs which make it difficult to digest." A five-volume History of Bitic Literature is conveniently...