Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turns back to the year 1915, for example, he can read of a time when Crimson teams treated the Bulldog as a toy poodle...
Restaurants were overflowing and local novelty shops did a landoffice business on toy tigers. An occasional undergraduate carrying text books could be seen travelling furtively along the edges of the crowd...
...session, for example, came Batteau's idea for a "logic toy," a gadget that would respond to the rules of formal logic and produce a correct answer to any logical problem fed it. Batteau, who had taken logic courses with Professor Quine and others, felt that all the rules could be set up in electronic circuits. He proceeded to construct the machine, "just for fun," and today a small box in Batteau's office can answer simple logical propositions fed into...
...Pulitzer Prizewinner De Carvalho (he won it in 1952, when he was on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle) found he still had some gaps in his story. Wrung out, Miss Callas balked at yet another interview, but finally consented if De Carvalho would courier her poodle puppy Toy from Rome to Milan, which...
...International Trade Ministry forbids the sale of heavy industrial goods to the Communists, the Japanese exhibitors displayed only light machinery, textiles and the gadgets for which their factories are famous. Yet on opening day Chairman Mao Tse-tung led 85,000 Chinese through the show. Fascinated by the mechanical toys, Mao spent part of his two-hour visit delightedly pressing buttons to make a toy bus stop, back and turn by remote control. He also found time to say: "I realize Japan's connections with the U.S. make the problem difficult, but we hope for restored Sino-Japanese relations...