Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much better, say the Beltsville entomologists, is the sneakier scheme of using synthetic sex lure to trick the males into crawling over a chemical that will sterilize them but do them no harm in any other way. They will mate normally with normal females whenever they get the opportunity...
...them. But each female that has mated with a sterilized male lays only infertile eggs. If most of the males in a given locality have been sterilized, then most of the females will have no living offspring, and the cockroach population will plunge toward zero. The same unsporting trick, say the Beltsville scientists, should work on other insects that use sex perfumes, including bollworms, army worms and corn borers...
Some computers have larger memories than others and do not admit as readily that they cannot hyphenate a word. Some rely on elaborate sets of word-dividing rules. This saves part of the cost of the word dictionary, but it can also trick the computer into making errors. All such systems using full-fledged computers are expensive. The RCA 301, with associated equipment, costs the Los Angeles Times a monthly rent of $5.170. but when it is not busy at its primary job, it does extra duty making out the payroll and billing advertisers. Much simpler is the Linasec machine...
...Good old Fearing," laughed Gridley. "His best trick was the lead bookends. They looked exactly like real books, complete with library numbers and titles like Mainly Bracing and Etwas Wundervoll. I'll never forget when I was a stackboy and they sent me to get End of the Line, F.102.9. I couldn't believe it was that heavy...
...Standard's goal in the U.S. is to overtake second-place Renault, whose U.S. sales last year slipped from 44,000 to about 34,000. This week the car that Standard-Triumph is betting on to do the trick will make its U.S. debut at the Miami auto show. It is the Spitfire, a racy two-seater sports car which is a little brother of the TR-4, last year's bestselling imported sports car in the U.S. Priced at $2,199 in the Eastern U.S., the Spitfire has roll-up windows, road-clinging independent four-wheel suspension...