Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those are the turns, as the American has witnessed them. And it is hard for him to discern in them anything he can describe by the word "principle...
...supine Rotterdam) was commuted in 1947 to life imprisonment, returned to his prison after a ten-day leave, spent with his wife at a Bavarian lakeside resort. It was all "in accordance with normal penal regulations," his British keepers announced; before he went, unguarded, "Smiling Albert" had given his word that he would be back...
...science, says Dr. Wiener, has suddenly appeared. It deals with control mechanisms, and Dr. Wiener has personally named it "cybernetics" from a Greek word meaning "steersman." It is growing like a parasitic fungus, drawing on techniques already developed by other sciences, from mathematics to psychology...
...neurotics is just what Dr. Frank N. Allan, of Boston's Lahey Clinic, might call them-but he has an even more encouraging word for their disease. Four years ago he thought up a new category for people who can live with their jitters if they have to-"benign nervousness...
...illuminated a small group of bored musicians, engineers and minor officials. A poker game was started, and Arthur Godfrey, who had been called in to cut some corn named I'm Going Back to Whur I Come From, "noodled," as he called it, on the studio organ. When word came that the ban was over, Columbia, undistracted by bigwigs and publicity gags, got to work on their first record half an hour before Victor...