Word: zip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
...gone up again. But those industries which had gone through their own recessions and cut prices had found that the bottom was not so far down as they had feared. They had learned demand was indeed enormous if they went after it with their oldtime salesman's zip...
...best. But the familiar, arrogant zip had gone. Jersey City had heard him out when it went to the polls last week. That day, after 36 years of pious corruption and political tyranny, Boss Hague was toppled from his throne...
...while last week, it looked as though big time polo were coming back to Cambridge. Then Bill Bingham spoke up, some leading philanthropists clammed up, and the zip of closing wallets was heard throughout the land...