Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memory system" consists of eight storage drums and a sequencing drum. Problems are solved by feeding information on a magnetic tape to the sequencing drum which in turn "commands" the computing section to accomplish the desired operations with the numbers in the storage drum. The results then come out of the machine on another magnetic tape...
Advice from Napoleon. This week the delegates broke up into six committees, which would accomplish whatever concrete work the Council was capable of. The committees would have a chance to agree on recommendations for: Europe's economy, social security, common European nationality and passport, joint public works (possibly including the old Jules Vernean dream of a tunnel under the Channel), and changes in the political structure of Europe to achieve greater unity...
...policymakers, the end came as ignominiously as fof China's Generalissimo. Wearily, Ambassador Stuart cabled Washington: "I have more than ever a sense of frustration ... I feel impotent to accomplish anything." Desperately he cabled for specific instructions to meet the shattering of Chinese resistance. In a tantrum born of its own indecision, Washington brushed off its ambassador's "hypothetical" inquiries: "It is not in the national interest to vouchsafe cut and dried answers to these over-simplified questions...
...intention to pose new tasks, but rather really to accomplish the old ones...
...watch the rise of another fine summer festival at Edinburgh. Said one Salzburg conductor last week: let Edinburgh go on being "an international, large-scale musical review"; Salzburg had its own "vernacular"-which was another way of saying that Salzburg would stick to the old tasks, and accomplish them...