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Word: charting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anybody that is, except Harvard, and this is all that remains on Taylor's "things-to-do" chart for the season. He wants to wipe out a current eight-game losing streak versus Harvard, beat his former colleague Billy Cleary, and give the Yale fans one more big win before the Zamboni, comes off for the final time...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Elis Want It, Crimson Need It | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...number, again read from right to left, is multiplied by a progressively higher power of 2. Thus the binary number 11010 equals 0 times 1, plus 1 times 2, plus 0 times 2X2, plus 1 times 2X2X2, plus 1 times 2X2X2X2 -for a total of 26 (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Science: The Numbers Game | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...A.F.C. Central. Second-and third-place teams will, in like manner, play their division-standings counterparts in the other conference. The days of a patsy schedule for a strong team are over; a team will have to earn a playoff spot on the field, not in the scheduling chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Letting Go | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...survey taken in 1960-62 and a second study, covering 13,671 individuals selected at random as representative of the entire U.S. population, conducted in 1971-74. The reported weight gains varied widely, up to 14 Ibs., depending on the sex, age and height of the subjects (see chart). But overall, they show that nearly the whole population is growing heavier. In the early 1960s, the average American woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Land of the Fat | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

Wondrous as they are, the new games are not without their flaws. Code Name: Sector, the submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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