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...that Sunday night General Gordon Bennett's sampan had bumped into a seagoing junk carrying six British officers. The General's party switched to the larger vessel, set an uncertain course for Sumatra. The torn page of an atlas was their only chart. Dawn found them in waters a scant half-mile from a Japanese-held island. Their food and water were nearly gone when an Allied launch picked them...
Harvard's 53-40 victory over Penn was an upset when the season's records of the two teams are taken into account, but it does not come as such an astounding surprise if a chart of the Crimson's performance is consulted. Earl Brown's entry has been hot and cold alternately all year. The Cantabs lost to Cornell and subdued Dartmouth in successive games as the campaign opened...
...unknown to Columbus." He was unable to use the newly invented astrolabe, and probably had none aboard. The common quadrant was his only instrument of celestial navigation. Mostly he sailed by dead reckoning, "which means simply laying down your compass courses and estimated distances on a chart...
With 1942 revenues up from higher rates on more traffic, the railroads can probably maintain their 1942 net profits at around $500,000,000, on a par with last year. In comparison with any year since 1930, this is profit indeed (see chart, which covers Class I roads). But for the railroads the '30s were a bankruptcy decade; and bankruptcy is no condition in which...
Teachers, parents and students all took a hand in running the schools. Because the problems of no two communities were exactly alike, each school had to chart its own road. Teachers, no longer able to discharge their duties by assigning lessons from a textbook and listening to recitations, had to learn their job all over again. Says Author Aikin: "The teacher has always had the leading role in schools everywhere. In democracy's high school his part becomes even more important. He does not merely play his assigned part; he helps select the play and is concerned with...