Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be quite a sale. Unless Hughes reneges at the last moment, his personally owned Hughes Tool Co. on May 3 will sell 75% of the stock, or 6,584,937 shares, in the nation's second biggest airline (after United). If the pricing is anywhere near last week's N.Y. Stock Exchange close of $80.37½, Hughes will gross well over $500 million. In Wall Street's record books, the secondary offering will rank behind only the Ford Foundation's $658 million sale of Ford stock ten years ago. Hughes stands to net about...
Appled Mathematics concentration grew out of the need for people who would be primarily the "users of mathematics;" people who must have a solid groundwork in theory, but whose primary consideration is using mathematics as a tool for solving mostly practical problems in engineering, physical sciences, economics, computer sciences, social sciences and operations research...
Unlike the pure mathematician, the applied mathematician is interested in the subject as a tool for finding useful results, not as a body of theory valued for its own sake and divorced from the outside world. Often a good part of the problem consists of translating from the language of the layman to the language of mathematics. For this reason, it is particularly important to have a good knowledge of the field to which you will be applying mathematics...
Cinema, that still most magic medium-portable, cheap, displayable in any place at any hour, infinitely capable of recording knowledge, vastly surpassing TV in screen size, picture quality and color-theoretically ought to be a universal teaching tool. Currently, four U.S. schools are saturating themselves in film in an attempt to make the ideal a reality...
Providing the "right atmosphere" is one of the Master's specialties, and his table-talks are obviously one of his favorite teaching methods. When dinner is over, he transplants the whole company across the courtyard to his lodgings, where, aided by beer, the discussion flows on (beer is a tool which Chalmers skillfully employs--if interest wanes he subtly introduces another case. The man seems to have an unflagging enthusiasm for free-ranging discourse with students. Barney Frank, the assistant senior tutor, recounts that "the only time I incurred his displeasure was when I tried to break...