Recalling the meeting yesterday, Vincent said he asked Rose if he had ever bet on baseball and elicited this reply: "No, I'm not that stupid.
In 1962, Groves wrote to Oppenheimer about the origin of the name, asking if he had chosen it because it was a name common to rivers and peaks in the West and would not attract attention, and elicited this reply: In March 1944, planning for the test was assigned to Kenneth Bainbridge, a professor of physics at Harvard University, working under explosives expert George Kistiakowsky.
A subsequent letter to Lord Russell explaining his achievement elicited the reply: "I am delighted to know that 'Principia Mathematica' can now be done by machinery.
The past and the present are actively interwoven for Thorpe, and even when he writes of his son asking: 'Why aren't our footprints there in front?', eliciting the reply: 'Because we're not there yet.
Slideshow: Although users' queries often elicited the reply Wolfram Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input, the site's strong graphical presentation of numerical data highlighted an important but elusive goal of Web search.
A couple of years earlier, for example, a similar inquiry from Pinsky's fellow translator, Robert Hass, had elicited the reply, "I survive by incantation" - which was more like him.
JTS Institute, a cramped school in a bustling Bangalore neighbourhood, now shows students how to "prompt" callers with questions and statements that elicit the replies that word-spotting software, and call-centre managers, are looking for, such as "I understand" and "that's great".
When none of these elicit a reply, Vernon and Bird go on an aerial journey in a teacup tied to a balloon.
Not to mention the fun of knowing that calling the ordinary Gas Board telephone number would never elicit a reply if the thing went wrong: only a call to the number reserved for gas leaks would stand a chance of being answered.
In other words, not one to one messages that would elicit a reply.
