Word: charting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to congratulate you on the chart by J. Donovan [Jan. 25], "National Debt...
Knowing when to stand and when to ask for another card is, of course, the heart of the game. Thorp's chart for this differentiates between what he calls "soft" hands-hands that contain an ace and are therefore less likely to go over 21 (aces count as either 1 or 11)-and "hard" hands, which contain no ace. For example, when the dealer is showing a nine or ten, a soft hand should draw, even on 19, because the ace in it can be taken as 1 if necessary (reducing the 19 to 9), whereas in the same...
...tackling the most difficult job in all of medicine. It would be tough enough if their task involved whole viruses, most of which can not be seen and can be photographed only with the electron microscope. But cancer research must make even more minute explorations inside viruses; it must chart the behavior of molecules in a no man's land between the living and the nonliving...
Dennis Lynch currently tops the Crimson scoring chart with a rather mundane average of 9.6 points per game. He is followed by post man Vern Strand, 8.9, and sophomore Leo Scully...
Away from the Sea. Steadily expanded since World War I by the Army Engineers, the inland waterways today link together an amazing amount of the nation (see chart). In the East they include De Witt Clinton's historic New York State Barge Canal, the Hudson River, and the sheltered coastal route that amateur sailors take south to Florida. In the U.S. heartland, the Mississippi and its tributaries afford unbroken passage from Pittsburgh west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from Minneapolis south to the Gulf. In the Far West, locks built into the McNary and Bonneville dams allow riverboats...