Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later at a firing-range observation post he watched heavily burdened paratroopers -850 in all-come tumbling out of the sky. Tons of ammunition and equipment hit the ground as they assembled and opened fire. In the neatest trick of the day, four C-82s dropped four huge 105 mm. howitzers and four towing jeeps. All but one gun floated safely down under billowing, 100 ft. cargo chutes, and the cannon were firing within twelve minutes after delivery...
...dirty trick to announce it so soon," observed Tallulah Bankhead, revealing plans to write a book about herself and her friends, "because a lot of people will start worrying unnecessarily. But," she added, "there'll be a lot of others who won't start worrying soon enough...
Poor Bombs Are Easy. The trick is to bring them together quickly enough. If they approach one another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...
With the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...
With the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...