Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
Great Hopes. Business over, the menfolk went downstairs to the long tables loaded with fried chicken, beef pork meat loaf; white and sweet potatoes fixed every way-fried, mashed, baked and roasted; a variety of salads, vegetables, muts, cakes and pies. Everybody ate hearty, and what was left went home with the women...
...what if a lot of men did it together at the same time?" Two years later, in answer to a War Department call, he volunteered to learn to fly at the Wright Brothers' field in Dayton. Said his disapproving commanding officer: "Young man, I know of no better way for a person to commit suicide!" In that year, 1911, Hap Arnold became one of the first two qualified airplane pilots in the U.S. Army...
...crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when he peers at muscle fibers in electron microscope pictures, though this kind of model has had brilliant uses for some purposes. On the other hand he knows in a practical way, as the logician knows, that reasoning by analogy from dynamical properties of the model is liable to stumble over imperfections in the analogy...