Word: diagraming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...device consists of a diagram of a football field on a metal board, and employs magnetized disks to represent players. Arrows on the disks denote the direction the play is to take, and the ball carrier is represented by a special magnetized marker...
This device will enable coaches to demonstrate plays and formations quickly and clearly without the necessity of erasures after every diagram...
...inspiration has a great deal to do with winning athletic contests. Some coaches feel it is best for a team's morale to wear a long face before important contests, particularly in the presence of newspapermen. If someone speaks of a Gildobian atmosphere, it doesn't require any diagram for a normal college student to know that that is a short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism is of the Pollyana sort...
Still undiscouraged, however, he con tinued to plan, to calculate, and last week his project at least reached as far as the newspaper headlines, and his bridge ap peared in diagram if not in steel. For with Major General Edgar Jadwin, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, was filed an application for permission to construct a suspension bridge from West 57th Street, Manhattan, to New Jersey. First announce ments of the application linked the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. with the North River Bridge Co., told how the B. & O. was determined to get into New York, discussed plans and specifications...
...modern mind,-i. e. "an overdeveloped faculty for thinking in space, and an underdeveloped or perhaps decayed faculty for thinking in time. With space-thinking alone to guide us we are apt to think our work done when we have devised a social scheme, system, or envisaged-diagram in which men and forces are placed (note the term) in right relationships to one another. Time-thinking immediately asks-how long will these men and forces stay where you have placed them, how long will the relationship last? For while everybody exists in space, nobody lives in space." To our TIME...