Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this connection in a booklet we published about advertising. Said Mr. Larsen: "Our magazines are dedicated to" the distribution of informa tion - and this applies to their advertising as well as to their editorial pages. Just as the work of our world could not go on without the swift ex change of news - so would our economy, grind to a halt without the swift exchange of goods and news about those goods." The advertisements in TIME'S International editions, like those in other U.S. publications distributed overseas, constitute a major medium for the ex change across our borders...
Before 1950 was over, the black, red and gold flag of the West German Federal Republic would fly from masts on the seven seas. Commenting on the amazingly swift change in Hamburg's mood, a Hamburg-Amerika Line official said: "I guess that we just decided we'd been in the restaurant business long enough...
...Language. The machines prefer such numbers because their essential parts (electrical relays or vacuum tubes acting like swift relays) obey only two commands: yes or no-i.e., an electrical signal or no signal. So all information fed into the machines has to be predigested into yes-or-no binary arithmetic. Any number, however large, can be expressed in this form. So can elaborate equations like those from the fission problem done for Princeton by the I.B.M. machine. Even languages can be translated in binary numbers. (One way: making different numbers stand for each character, syllable or word.) Any sort...
Along the brain's interlaced "wires" run swift electrical pulses generated by the neurons, which serve as living batteries. When a pulse runs out along a fiber, it comes eventually to a complicated little structure called a "synapse" that connects with a fiber of another nerve cell. The pulse may pass through a synapse or it may not pass; no one knows...
Tibbett feels that abbreviated, swift-paced TV operas will not do any serious damage to the venerable and tradition-encrusted body of grand opera. "To my way of thinking, we're evolutionists, not revolutionists," he explains. "We don't want to alienate what I would call good conservative opinion." The major purpose of TV opera, as Tibbett sees it: "To keep opera's present public, and develop...