Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, the National Bureau o Standards' Institute for Numerical Analysis started operating a new electronic calculator which in a mere four hours can solve 150 simultaneous algebraic equations nvolving 4,000,000 arithmetic operations. It can also perform 1,000,000 additions a minute and even make a stab at translating foreign languages (Present vocaulary: 200 words). If SWAC (for Standards Western Automatic Computer) had been around during World War II, hundreds of women calculating-machine operators would have been saved the work ot more than a year compiling rocket-nring tables; SWAC, which needs no sleep...
...Stairs in a Hurry. If a radio dramatist likes music behind his words, Crosby found, one piece he can get is Background-Nostalgic-Tender into ye Rude Awakening. "Ye Rude Awakening, in this case, is simply a sad chord of a sort known in the trade as a stab . . . Not all stabs are bad news, though. WOR can also provide you with a hopeful stab called Things Are Looking...
What should the Government do to help check the new inflation? The Federal Reserve Board was for raising interest rates to tighten credit. The other great fiscal arm of the Government, the Treasury, thought that this would be a treacherous stab in the back. As the nation's biggest borrower, it wanted cheap money and easy credit to keep down the cost of interest on the $257 billion national debt...
Nearly 500 people a day swarmed through the exhibition, which was already turning out to be the most popular in Gump's 91-year history. The first pictures to go were an 18th Century engraving of two cupids making a prim stab at golf, and four Victorian prints celebrating croquet, bathing, archery and rowing. Beamed Impresario Gump: "We've taken sporting art out of the box seats and moved it into the bleachers...
...Replied McCormick: "I did not know there was such a place before I landed here," thus convicted himself of failing to read his own newspaper"; the Trib's Delhi correspondent, Percy Wood, has filed full and accurate accounts of the dispute. Then McCormick made a tentative stab: "That is where the rugs come from...