Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hence the basic blackjack strategy, according to Thorp's computer, is that the fewer cards valued at two to eight that are left in the pack, the greater advantage to the player. On the other hand a shortage of nines, tens and aces gives the dealer an advantage. A...
This is Thorp's basic strategy; his full-dress system involves a much more complex technique of betting in terms of the number of tens, aces and fives remaining in the deck in relation to the number of cards left in the pack before the next shuffle.
"Rule or Ruin." The delegates rallied in shoulder-to-shoulder solidarity around Farm Bureau President Charles B. Shuman. In his opening speech Shuman put the pitchfork to present agricultural programs. The Agriculture Department, he said, seems "determined to either rule or ruin American agriculture." He called the costly price-support...
If a super-powerful telescope had been trained on the morning star last week, it might have seen a tiny, spidery object all vanes and antennae, creep slowly past the blazing crescent of Venus. This was the U.S. space-probe Mariner II. For more than four months it had drifted...
Frank Murphy of Harvard led both firing squads with a one-man score of 239. Each man fires tens shots in each of three positions--prone, kneeling, and standing--for a maximum of 300 points.