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...When you drag the children out of their hovels into the light of day, they all show the same familiar signs: narrow shoulders, protruding Adam's apple, spidery legs, earth-colored, leathery skin, huge eyes in huge heads. Worst of all, they have the dull, fixed stare of children who have never laughed...
...taxes were grafted on, raising the cost side of the parity index from 125% to 130%. At that time no farmer wanted to include farm labor costs: it would have dropped the index four percentage points. Today it is another story; wages are on the up, and they can drag parity...
...more than 1,000,000 discs). Como versions of another Chopin tune, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless it's that one's bald and one has curly hair and I wear my hair short...
...problems it cannot handle. There is plenty of work ahead for eniac, its inventors say. In nearly every science and every branch of engineering, there are proved principles which have lain dormant for years because their use required too much calculation. Example: aircraft designers know how to predict air-drag theoretically, but the job takes so much figuring that they prefer to make scale models and test them-somewhat inaccurately-in expensive wind tunnels. In future, they may rely on eniac...
Einstein & Venus. Although many scientists pointed out that the Belmar technique was too crude at present to drag much new information down from space, they speculated happily on what it might accomplish in the future...