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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human being wrote a single word of the 764-page book just published by the University Press. It was all done by a machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calculator Grinds Out Mighty Tome Unaided | 3/9/1948 | See Source »

...Orlando's 29th annual cockfighting tournament-though no word of it appeared in Florida newspapers last week. Florida is the only state in the union where cockfighting is legal (but the heavy betting that goes on at the pit is not, hence the secrecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...stockholders felt the same way. Moreover, they wanted to know why OAP had not yet kept its word to sell its share of the company and return control to private hands. This week Dave Bazelon got ready for a stockholders' suit challenging his authority to run the companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIEN PROPERTY: Big Stick | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Based" is such an elastic word, it is hard to distinguish fact from fiction. Everybody (especially Vladimir Sokoloff) acts like a character in a half-believable movie melodrama. But some of the things they do are so incredible that they are obviously current history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...subjective aspects of personality. He believes that mankind is at the greatest opportunity in its history. "The species can now . . . realize unity without loss of diversity or differentiation." The opportunity Author Whyte likens to that of a man & woman whose love remains in suspense until the first word is spoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unitary Man | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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