Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Language. The machines prefer such numbers because their essential parts (electrical relays or vacuum tubes acting like swift relays) obey only two commands: yes or no-i.e., an electrical signal or no signal. So all information fed into the machines has to be predigested into yes-or-no binary arithmetic. Any number, however large, can be expressed in this form. So can elaborate equations like those from the fission problem done for Princeton by the I.B.M. machine. Even languages can be translated in binary numbers. (One way: making different numbers stand for each character, syllable or word.) Any sort...
...week's end Maggiorani got some help from the U.S., where movie fans prefer a happy ending. Manhattan's Italian-language radio station WOV cabled its Rome studio to hire him as an apprentice recording technician, and perhaps give him work as an actor. While Giuseppina held out for a real acting job, Maggiorani gratefully considered the offer...
Dean Bender said last night that he would prefer not to comment on the issue. He has a regular meeting with the Council officers today...
...gold-digging Lorelei Lee in the new musical version of Anita Loos's famed bestseller of the '20s, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 153 Ibs.) Carol Channing is ludicrously miscast. Her head, topped by an unruly peroxide burlesque of a flapper's hairdo, seems too small for her generous features. Set insecurely on the top of a columnar neck and broad, sloping shoulders wrapped in the shapeless fashions of two decades ago, it gives her the appearance of an amiable performing seal; and like a seal she seems naively anxious to please...
...couple of hours more thus get no chance at the book. Under the Adams plan books would still be in the library for use after the early shift quits for the night. The new system would also provide a study room during the term for men whose roommates prefer to indulge in such sports as poker, reserving their strength for a stretch drive, and making their rooms unlikely places for study...