Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...engine room Chief Petty Officer Sam Hine, who had spent 20 of his 37 years in the Navy, was the senior rank present. He asked, "Who can swim?" Swimmers volunteered to give their escape gear* to those nonswimmers who had none...
...older European attitude toward the U.S.: "The Duchess of Cambridge, at a garden party, examined my mother's skirts, saying in a loud voice: 'I want to see if they are dirty, because I hear you only associate with dirty radicals and dirty Americans.' " Of the present-day U.S., Russell continued...
Dour Daniel Malan growled that the outside world's hostile opinion was "interference mania." Last week Old Sphinx Havenga took issue with the Premier. "With world opinion against us," he warned, "it is not wise or practical at the present stage to take away any of the rights which have been given to non-Europeans." As leader of the Afrikaner Party, a small, less stridently chauvinistic ally of Malan's Nationalists, Havenga holds the balance of power in the government. He used it to force a slowdown in the racial program. Among other things, Malan had planned...
...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...