Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Your summation of the Half-Century was a masterpiece except for one thing. For better or for worse, there were other men who have left a greater impact on the world than Churchill...
Like Dr. Binger, Dr. Murray had all the answers, except for one question to which Dr. Binger also had no answer. How did Chambers happen to have the notes in Hiss's handwriting and the stolen State Department documents typed out on Hiss's machine? "That is outside my province," said the expert witness. Early this week the defense rested...
Electronic Cobwebs. Laymen are usually baffled When they first look at the machines. Except for Bessie, who has thousands of moving parts that spin and clack entertainingly, they are mostly electronic, and look like the insides of big, enormously complicated radio sets. Among their thousands of vacuum tubes runs a tangled web of fine, insulated wire. On their panels lights flash mysteriously: red lights and white lights dancing like motes in the sunlight as the numbers flow. Harvard's newest machine, Mark III, is probably the handsomest. It was built for the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance...
Their opponents retort that computers are mere tools that do only what they are told. Professor Aiken, a leader of the conservatives, admits that the machines show, in rudimentary form at least, all the attributes of human thinking except one: imagination. Aiken cannot define imagination, but he is sure that it exists and that no machine, however clever, is likely to have...
Storrs is a town through which nobody "passes." It is a tiny hamlet on a country road between two arbitrary points on two minor highways. Except for a few farmers within its borders, its population is almost completely connected with the university...