Word: chart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High over San Francisco's Golden Gate during last week's western war games, Flyer-Artist Clayton Knight sketched the position of two "enemy submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography...
...hand-me-down copy of TIME (issue of September 9) is lying on the chart-room table...
...tons of graded Cape May, New Jersey sand, through which the water will seep. Before entering the pool it will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will be periodically subjected to the suction of a large curry comb. connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...
...took an experienced police officer three days to put together a distribution chart of the force . . . no proper records are kept . . . crime prevention and arrests are kept secret...
...tendency for the teacher, deprived of the stimulus that comes from suggestion and helpful criticism, not to show the expected professional growth. . . . A blanket statement such as is usually made-'He is a good teacher' or 'He is a poor teacher'-is worthless as a chart for improvement. . . . As contrasted with the casual appraisals now made, a respectable survey of a man's effectiveness as a teacher should be: 1) systematic; 2) impartial; 3) made from various angles, . . . 4) of known reliability, . . . 5) capable of showing the virtues and weaknesses...