Word: charts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabinet. One button is marked "Present," the second "Yes," the third "No." Each button closes a circuit through a 100-ohm resistance, thus consuming a measured amount of electric current. In the power station, besides the standard wattmeter which constantly records the total current in use and charts the daily peak loads, is a Hopkins wattmeter on which the recording chart is driven 96 times faster than standard. A few inches of this fast chart are required to record the drain on the power house for only 30 seconds. If the 30 seconds are taken when the station load...
...anywhere on the political horizon. Consequently, it will be necessary to appoint some lesser man to fill the place vacated by Chautemps. Whether or not he will be able to preserve the present government it is impossible to predict, for French domestic politics change with mercurial rapidity, and to chart their course in advance hardly falls within the powers of mortal man. NEMO...
Forty-one days they huddled on the thwarts or lay half-conscious in the bilge. At last they reached the Great Barrier Reef and, with no chart but Bligh's memory of a voyage with Captain Cook, found a passage through. In a happier dawn than the one that saw their hopeless start they sailed into the harbor of Coupang, with Bligh still at the tiller and none of them quite dead...
...Pacifists say that as civilization progresses, war should decrease. To prove that, in the past, the reverse has been true, a historical war chart was exhibited by two Russian expatriates. The chartmakers plotted the amount of war in the Occidental world from 500 B. C. to 1925 A. D. They surveyed 902 wars, gave each an index number based on duration, number of combatants, number of casualties, number of participating countries, proportion of combatants to noncombatants. From this they computed index numbers for each of the 24 whole centuries examined and for the fractional 25th...
...anyone needs further proof of Long's worth to our nation, I suggest that he be in Congress on that memorable day when Huey rolls in that chart, 18 by 36 feet or thereabouts, collars some confrere, and startles the nation with the Long plan for recovery. The only trouble with it, said Huey, is that it might take a long time to work...