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Word: speeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surely you would not argue that the dirt-moving power of a bulldozer cannot exceed that of its maker. Why, then, cannot the thinking power of a computer exceed that of its programmer? The machine has the advantage of great speed, phenomenal concentration, superb memory and relentless attention to detail. Few men can say the same. Remember that Edison described genius as consisting of 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. It would appear that computers are further along that road than most humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1969 | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Nicknamed "the Ham" because he likes to pose for pictures, the copper-toned colt impresses everybody with his appearance as well as his record. His breeder, Leslie Combs II of Spendrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., raves: "He has looks. He has speed. He has courage. And, most important, he has done everything right from the very start." Majestic Prince has certainly done right by Combs, who sold him as a yearling in 1967 for the then record price of $250,000-to Frank McMahon, a Vancouver, B.C., industrialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Beauty and the Beast | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...meet competitive deadlines. "They are as indispensable as the walkie-talkie and the reporter's pencil," claims Shiro Hara, managing editor of Yomiuri. Many of the aircraft are equipped to process film in flight, then transmit it to newspaper offices via mobile radiophoto equipment. When a disaster breaks, speed is so important that most of the papers' airport mechanics are also trained to fill in as photographers. The dailies even use vacant lots near their offices as sites on which to drop negatives from helicopters when time permits. Asahi spends $694,000 a year on its air fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Japanese Air Force | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

However, late in the spring student trouble began. The original incident was small: a freshman named Maxwell refused to recite his Greek lessons. His instructor, Mr. Durkin, reacting to this provocation with speed and strength, hotly demanded that Maxwell obey. Maxwell adamantly refused, stating that he did not recognize his Instructor's authority to command obedience. The next day Maxwell was called to President Quincy's office to explain the incident; two days later he again was called before the President, and when he left the second time he had requested permission to withdraw from the University. If in those...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: It Happened at Harvard: The Story of a Freshman Named Maxwell | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

...provision to implement the desires of the dying to aid the living is increasingly urgent." Now that doctors are attempting or gan transplants with ever increasing frequency, the need has become even more urgent. Aware of the shortage of transplant organs, legislators across the nation are acting with unaccustomed speed to make it easier to donate organs after death. Last year Massachusetts changed the law that stood in the way of Grace Metalious' gift. At least 35 states from Maine to Hawaii have introduced legislation based on a model law, the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Last week, the Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legislation: Making Transplants Easier | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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