Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...agree. By last week, as 65-year-old Harry Carman reached the retirement age for "deaning," Columbia's three-legged stool had been copied on campuses throughout the U.S. "Let's not forget Montaigne's admonition," Carman once advised: "'The object of education is to make, not a scholar, but a man.' " If U.S. colleges had begun to make less lopsided men, it was partly because of Dean Carman...
Feats like this, hitherto impossible for slow, short-lived man, are what make scientists wildly excited about the new computers. Virtually every branch of science is surrounded by beetling walls of unscalable figures. The hazy paths of electrons whirling around a nucleus, the speeding flow of air over an airplane's wing, the structure and reactions of complex chemical molecules-all these involve continents and oceans of figures, figures, figures. Sometimes a simple answer (a small number, or even a yes or a no) would cost a lifetime or 100 lifetimes of human calculation...
Chess Player. Dr. Claude E. Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories is figuring how to make a calculator that can play chess. He thinks that one could play well enough to beat all except the greatest chess masters. Machines are also capable, he thinks, of orchestrating a melody and of making simple logical deductions...
...current boom, the Government has failed to make full use of its broad fiscal powers, said the subcommittee, chiefly because of the family rows between the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board. The chief task of FRB should have been to restrict credit during the boom, by forcing interest rates up. But the Treasury, insisting on a cheapmoney policy, fought any change, because a change would have meant an increase in the cost of carrying the U.S. debt. Time & again FRB failed to do its job, and went along with what FRB's Marriner Eccles called...
...midwinter air show last week, France showed off the world's first jet-propelled light plane for private use: the Fouga Cyclone. With its wide wingspread and light construction (1,182 Ibs.), it not only looked like a glider but could fly like one. Apparently to make up for the heavy fuel consumption of the jet motor, the Cyclone's makers said that the plane could soar in updrafts for miles with the motor shut off, land at only 45 m.p.h...