Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Rubber is no problem. Russia was the first country (1936) to set up a sizable synthetic-rubber industry, now produces about 125,000 metric tons a year...
Twenty years old and cute as a Powers model, blue-eyed Roberta Peters, daughter of a Bronx shoe salesman, had been hired last January after an audition. Impresario Sol Hurok had brought her to the Met after hearing her sing in her teacher's Manhattan studio. She was set to work on the coloratura role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute, due for a Metropolitan Opera performance in early 1951. Like other neophytes at the Met, she spent the rest of her time attending classes in the Met's affiliated Kathryn Turney...
...manufacturing, mass clerical operations, and in the exercise of technical control processes." They can observe facts and reach conclusions from their observations. They can store facts in their memories. They can make decisions based on observed facts plus remembered facts. They can communicate automatically over any distance. They can set other machines in motion, keep watch over them and correct their action, keep accounts and make reports at any desired stage...
When Coach Paul Brown set about to form, his squad five years ago, big (200 lbs., 6 ft. 1 in.) Otto Graham, onetime Northwestern halfback, was the first man hired. Brown has a ready, if unconventional, explanation for his choice: "He was an All-America basketball player, a playmaker." Instead of flattening his receivers with bullet throws, Graham likes to feather the ball at them. His theory: "Hand it to 'em high, and let 'em run under it." In four years in the old All-America Conference, Graham completed more than 50% of his passes. With 114 completions...
...Most Pasadenans conceded that their schools would need some streamlining, but some oldliners were hardly ready for the type of streamlining Goslin proposed. When he asked for pre-season teacher-training, his board voted it down as frivolous and too expensive. When he suggested that Pasadena set up summer-school camps, citizens howled that the scheme smacked of collectivism. When he backed a 50% boost in the school tax, Pasadena thundered "no" at the polls by a vote...