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...course, Gray, "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." Not "wind." I followed with Bartlett's quotations, with 52 instances of "world" followed by "is" and not once with "are." I politely called his attention to the fact that Merriam-Webster is hyphenated and that his new IBM electric typewriter had skipped the hyphen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WORLD IN A SILVER FOX COAT | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...interviewing for the study has been completed, and the project officially ends next year. But the vast files in the Center attest to the work still left. The questionnaire material has been transferred to IBM cards, while a cross file with 100 major divisions contains the research data. More than 600 people were interviewed, while over 2,800 people filled out 11,000 different questionnaires...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Research Center Studies Soviet Social System | 10/9/1953 | See Source »

Withdrawal from board, furthermore, does not entail book work that will string up Lehman Hall with red tape or overtax IBM machines. If the dining halls do not charge every undergraduate for the meals served before the term's open, it is inconsistent to bill everyone for the days after the term's end. Such compulsion is wrong; dining hall officials should lose no time in setting the matter right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The High Price of Hunger | 9/30/1953 | See Source »

...tried conscientiously in the past, to eliminate the worst inconveniences from the schedule. Simple majority rule should be the standard: classes with the greatest number of students should have at least one day of breathing space between them. Such a change this year might irretrievably snafu the IBM machines. But in the future the bulk of the College should have to stumble from exam to exam without a break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Room to Breathe | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

Look about you: innocence, you will find, is rampant everywhere. Its fresh breath emanates from University Hall where IBM machines have naively arranged for an eight-day reading period. It can be felt along the river among the Houses, particuarly between the afternoon hours of one to four, and it pervades the streets, adorned periodically as they are with flapping tags attached to myriad windshield wipers. Yes, Cambridge alone might justify the babe's symbolism, but his traces are found elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy New Year | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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