Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Said Mrs. Waring: "I realize that if one has a cause, one has to be willing to suffer for it." Her telephone was kept busy with anonymous threats. Condemnatory-and a few congratulatory-letters poured in from over the South. Telegrams of praise came from the corners of the U.S...
Says Dr. Creech cautiously: "This is far from a cure for human cancer." But, he adds, the method is so promising that he is willing to work oh it, if necessary, for the next ten years.
Other reports on the football front indicate that influential alumni have been taking considerable interest in the administrative side of the University's gridiron troubles. These reports say that these alumni groups blame poor Athletic Association organization for most of Harvard's football plight. They believe that Harvard's admissions...
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...
Some practical computermen scoff at such picturesque talk, but others recall odd behavior in their own machines. Robert Seeber of I.B.M. says that his big computer has a very human foible: it hates to wake up in the morning. The operators turn it on, the tubes light up and reach...