Word: graphed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...graph has not been a smoothly rising curve. Objectors have fought it because they feared politics, threats to academic freedom. Aid reached less than half the boys and girls who asked for it. In 1937 the fund was severely cut (to $50,000,000). Finicky colleges like Harvard and Yale haughtily kept NYA out because its pay was skimpy. It was criticized for having such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, William Green, Owen D. Young, the late Amelia Earhart on its advisory board...
...lecture three weeks ago on the need to balance prices, President Roosevelt singled out plaster as one article for which the price is too high. Leaning back in his chair with a long wooden pointer, he discussed a large graph showing that plaster prices are now twice what they were in 1929 (TIME...
Using one of his methods, it is possible to calculate the performance of a tube from graph curves based on the characteristics of the unit...
...major slumps have followed "in the wake" of sunspot maxima. He mentions two sunspot investigators who failed to find any connection between unusual sunspot activity and abundant crops, but reflected that bumper crops do not always accompany industrial prosperity. Their prosperity curves did not fit well with ordinary sunspot graphs, either, but when they made a graph showing the up-and-down deviations from average activity, between 1876 and 1930. it matched a curve showing the volume of manufactures very nicely...
...From then on he was No. 1 U. S. country newspaper editor and prairie philosopher. Forty Years on Main Street is a collection of his editorials, grouped by subject, covering the best of his output. The result is an interesting bit of Americana combining a Main Street diary, a graph of the devious political path of a Progressive of Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Class of 1912, and an all-but-extinct type of "personal journalism...