Word: thermostatted
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...floor main entrance at one end of the building, to the executive offices. Secretaries, instead of being tucked away in dark inner cubicles, were given window seats. Treetops wave just outside the horizontal steel louvers, which will eventually rust to a cinnamon dark ness. Every office has its own thermostat, and the whole building has push button telephones...
...Greek word for "steersman," and he made it stand for the science of control mechanisms that he showed to be part of neurology, psychology and many other disciplines. The human brain is a control mechanism; so are a computer, a missile's guidance system, even a simple household thermostat. All of them obey the rules that Wiener spelled...
...wife would not move in until adequate plumbing was installed. During the blitz, Churchill complained that it was "shaky." One ancient boiler heated both Nos. 10 and 11, residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, leading then-Chancellor Rab Butler to complain that when Churchill set the thermostat in the 70s or 80s, he, Butler, was being "fried alive...
...reason, he has dueled with the sentimental drama that wears its heart on its sleeve and with the tricked-up theatrical spectacle. Almost alone among contemporary critics, he has upheld comedy's right to be taken seriously, chiefly because "comedy is a kind of thermostat that regulates and corrects the emotional, ethical, intellectual temperatures at which we live." Serving the comic spirit in the way he likes best, Kronenberger plans to write comic novels on the order of his Grand Right and Left and recent A Month of Sundays. He will also teach part-time as Brandeis University Professor...
...shaped like a snub-nosed howitzer shell, 80 in. long and 41 in. in diameter. Protruding from its body is an assembly of aerials that resembles a windmill, and a pair of wings that house scientific gear and solar batteries. Included in Venusnik's gear are an automatic thermostat to regulate temperature and orienting equipment that 1) prevents the vehicle from tumbling, 2) points its solar batteries constantly toward the sun. and 3) keeps its main aerial facing the earth...