Word: widing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interests of up & coming Charles Sawyer were wide. He became attorney for Cincinnati's big Union Central Life Insurance Co. and chairman of its investment committee. After some criticism by examiners of the company's loan policy, Sawyer resigned the committee chairmanship. No loss was suffered in the investments. Sawyer remained as counsel until he took the Commerce...
...Rather than collecting in one's mind a wide scattering of factual information," Conant said, "however helpful such information may be in a quiz program." General Education should give a student, through intensive study of certain phases of a subject, "that same sort of appreciation and understanding that comes to those who studied some branch of knowledge with profit for many years." This, he said, rather than providing a survey of a wide field of knowledge, is the true aim of General Education...
Professor Wiener is a stormy petrel (he looks more like a stormy puffin) of mathematics and adjacent territory. A rarity among scientists, he is willing & able to talk intelligently on almost any subject. Wiener got interested in computing machines while doing war work on gun-pointing mechanisms. His wide-ranging interests (too widely ranging, some of his detractors think) saw in them qualities and possibilities that more practical men had missed...
Computing machines are very expensive at present; Mark III cost $500,000. But they are becoming simpler, as well as more intelligent, and their cost can be cut enormously by commercial production methods. It is almost certain that they will come into wide use eventually. On Professor Aiken's desk are sheaves of letters from corporations eager to learn about the computers' potentialities...
...Miami's 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...