Word: charts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just a field of new mown hay, Where the statisticians play, Just a formula to shield me from all harm, Where the propaganda grows, And the chart blooms like a rose...
...seeps. Before entering the pool again, the water is impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color and which disinfects the water while it is in the pool. The results of this addition can be tested by comparing a test tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition, the floor of the tank is periodically cleaned by being subjected to the suction of a large curry comb, connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...
Goebbels, Goering, and, to a lesser extent, Hitler himself, have behaved since last March in such a manner as to convict themselves either of the desire to go to war or of a stupendous inability to chart their own course. For the essentials of their propaganda are capable of no other interpretation, and that propaganda they have brewed with uncommon energy and ability, leaving no page in the book of mob inflammation unturned, no trick in the militarist deck unplayed. M. Daladier has been an apt pupil, and the guerre de revanche, seemingly moribund, has blossomed beneath his hand...
PERHAPS it is a testament to the intellectual vitality of Gertrude Stein that no one has thus far been able to chart her titanic course through the letters of our time. She is herself inimical to critics, and one of her strongest aphorisms insists that the artist stands in need of appreciation, but never of criticism. This has been sufficient to deter many of the faculty; Sherwood Anderson, most apt among her pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes...
...internes rush off the stage as though the devil had them by the coat tails when it is announced that a patient with lacerated wrists has been brought into the emergency ward. You may smile when, in the second scene, a doctor diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive the patient from post-operative shock, in bursts Interne Ferguson to snatch the hypodermic out of his superior...