Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets from Memorial Drive to Garden and Kirkland Streets, M. A. Kraft research assistant for the Bureau, revealed yesterday. The numbers of vehicles reported on each street from 7:00 o'clock in the morning to 7:00 o'clock in the evening are being tabulated in a large diagram called a "flow map." Eight feet square, the flow map indicates the volume of traffic on any street by the width of that street on the map. Hence, on a preliminary scale drawing of the map, Massachusetts Avenue was drawn at least five times as wide as Holyoke Street...
...Duke of Norfolk's father at the time of the Coronation of George V. The Hastings family have chafed at this ever since (25 years), and last week they were out in full force to press their claim with two hours of judicial argument backed up by a diagram three feet square. To the visibly great satisfaction of the House of Hastings, the Court of Claims finally decided that Lord Hastings is one of three peers and four peeresses each indubitably entitled by hereditary right to carry the two spurs of His Majesty. It is not the business...
...matter of fact nothing could be farther from the truth. And the proof of this statement will be entirely unnecessary to any one who once tries to diagram the plays of the opposing teams; or to any one who after the game tries to tell you how each man on the field played, whether he was carrying out his assignments, whether he was getting the best of the man opposite him, how he was blocking, and if his tackling was crisp or just so so. Of course not even the coaches can be expected to see all these things...