Word: charts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governors assembled in the long narrow board room opening upon the grimy interior court of the Treasury building. Around its brownish-yellow walls hung many a chart, their graphs ending in dismal downward dips. (Zigzags were all in black & white because color-blind Governor Meyer has trouble with reds and greens.) After handshakes all around, the Board and its visiting officials settled down in black leather swivel chairs around a long mahogany table for an all-day session...
...covers, with some detail, the history of modern Germany from its earliest beginnings in Brandenburg to the present day and minute. No phase of it is left untouched; Professor Fay amply discusses the military, political, economic, and social aspects of Germany's development, without making a mere chronological chart of names and dates; and his technical knowledge of military warfare enables him to give interesting, whether or not important, analyses of numerous battles and campaigns...
...Upon the roof is a chart house topped by a meteorological shelter. Here are set up the indicating and recording instruments, one of them, for wind, being particularly interesting...
...Keeping the chart house company on the roof are two new radio towers and several brick pedestals where students will acquire practice with surveying and astronomical instruments. Some one was ingenious enough to have the pedestals made in varying heights, that tall and short and average students might all work comfortably...
Sport. Everything you could possibly want to know about the Maryland Hunt Cup, including a chart of the course, anecdotes of all the famous races, complete statistics (1894-1931), photographs of all the winners, is included in Gentleman Rider Stuart Rose's The Maryland Hunt Cup (Huntington Press: $7.50; limited edition...