Word: seesawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hubs is a longitudinal bar. The real axle is pivoted on the bar's center. The wheels are geared together in such a way that one of them is always on end when the other is on its side. As the wheels revolve, the bar moves like a seesaw. Its center, carrying the axle, does not move up or down, so the vehicle can ride as smoothly as if it had round wheels...
...predetermined ways. His machine, which he calls a "homeostat," is different. The present model is pretty simple, but it really thinks, he says-at least in the sense that it takes action on its own, according to any change in situation affecting it. So, for that matter, does a seesaw, compass needle, or a sunflower. Dr. Ashby contends that his machine acts in a more complicated way, adjusts itself to a greater variety of circumstances. That, he holds, constitutes thinking...
...Young and Fair has a real sense of how thorny and bewildering life can be: an endless emotional seesaw, a constant moral crossroads. It understands, too, how snobbish institutions like Brook Valley help strangle decent impulses. Unfortunately it has not let bad enough alone, but has gone at ticklish human problems with the red hot pincers of melodrama, and has so loaded itself down with wiles and theatrics that it finally caves in. There is so much plot that there is no real plight; the words, like the deeds, smack at times of garish melodrama...
Jeez! Jeez! Across the U.S. last week, the seesaw race had baseball fans quivering. Cleveland motorists had to wait for their gasoline until absent-minded attendants finished listening to another play on their radios; business in downtown movie houses slumped 25%. In Boston, scalpers asked and got as much as $30 for a pair of tickets. One New Yorker, his nose buried in the box scores, tripped over a fire hydrant and banged his head hard enough to need stitches...
Wednesday, the squad outscored Governor Dummer Academy, 12 to 8, in a wild seesaw battle on the Business School Field. Governor Dummer snapped up an early lead but the yearlings bounced back, and were ahead, eight to seven at the half...