Word: diagramer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal, mature tooth has a hard outer enamel, an inner layer of dentine, and at the core a soft pulp containing the nerves and blood vessels (see diagram). Because blood vessels do not reach the enamel, they bring it no nourishment, take none away, says...
...photographer pulls it out of the camera along with a sheet of special paper. Attached to the paper is a "pod" (containing a viscous chemical mixture) which is broken when it passes two small rollers. The chemicals are spread evenly between film and paper, sticking them closely together (see diagram...
Strachey declined to reply, but last week Manhattan's unco-guid tabloid, PM, ever on the alert for economic injustice, had the answer. In a front-page diagram, PM traced the history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
...Unhappily, the diagram illustrates a space ship taking off in the same direction as the earth travels...
...Readers Dietrich & Deutsch take a longer look at the diagram. The arrow shows the direction of the rocket's flight to Venus, not the direction of the takeoff. Since the earth moves 18.5 m.p.s. and the rocket is fired in the opposite direction at 8 m.p.s., the net speed of the rocket is 10.5 m.p.s. in the direction of the earth's motion...