Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for the Smoker also include a raffle, "either for a doorprize or one of the female entertainers," said Yamin. More beer outlets will be provided in Memorial Hall to prevent the crowding of the past, and as usual soft drinks will be served for the abstainers...
...have learned something from the past failures of Britain and France, who supported monopoly groups in these countries, but we may be making the same mistake in the Arab oil producing states by befriending the leaders like Ibn Ben Saud and forgetting the people, Frye said...
Seed of the Abacus. The calculating machines that are Bessie's ancestors have roots far back in the past. The abacus, used in ancient Egypt and still used in much of Asia, is a simple figuring device. The French mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-62) designed a mechanical calculator when Louis XIII was king. The present adding machine is a remote descendant of Pascal's design...
...human brain, some computermen explain, thinks by judging present information in the light of past experience. That is roughly what the machines do. They consider figures fed into them (just as information is fed to the human brain by the senses), and measure the figures against information that is "remembered." The machine-radicals ask: "Isn't this thinking...
...planting flowers, leaving a cross and "a glass dome, full of waxen flowers and fruit, with a marble scroll curling through the flowers, and SHINER, in fine long letters cut in it." He takes pictures of the grave, "and a heat of grief bit into him." He looks up, past "doves flying white in the blue," and prays, "Oy, you want to watch out. There ain't all that many of 'em. Please. Look after old Shiner. Hear...