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...biologist in the making was doing penance one Saturday morning for his sins of omission. He was laboriously copying a vast chart, spread over two or three large tables, that was designed to explain to Anti-Clerics the Evolution of animal life, from the little Protozoa to the lower Chordates (a large group ranging all the way from she-flirts to sea-squirts). All of a sudden, into the privacy of the lonely laboratory came a troupe of smiling adults, all intent on edification. Solemnly and yet enthusiastically they took their places at the shining black tables. Then...
...Hurja sold his Texas paper, took his wife to a Manhattan apartment on Riverside Drive, settled down with sheets of statistics to chart the flow of gold and oil, their output and their probable consumption...
Just as many a corporation executive has on his desk a looseleaf book in which are the latest statistics and charts of sales by product and region, of profits, of raw materials, etc., etc., so Mr. Hurja has at his elbow a compendious black volume. He can quickly turn through it to any state or subdivision. If he opens it on the 16th Congressional District of Illinois, he finds a salmon-pink chart indicating that the Congressman there is a Republican. If he were a Democrat the sheet would be white. Under the Congressman's name are the returns...
...ability to get things said without benefit of polysyllables. His address last week was understandable to anyone who knew what photons and ions are. He introduced one hybrid term of his own devising: isocosms, or lines of equal cosmic ray intensity on the world map. He showed on a chart how isocosms closely follow the lines of equal geomagnetic intensity. He left a definite impression that isocosms were not to be argued with...
...savage radio attack on real estate bonds, then in high favor with unsophisticated investors. Lately Publisher Frank Knox has been letting out his business section budget, and Editor Munger has expanded, hired a battery of specialists. In his year-end review Editor Munger had a stock-market chart for 1935 with major movements explained by cartoons of Chief Justice Hughes, the Blue Eagle exploding, Haile Selassie with shield and spear, etc. Most exciting moment in Editor Munger's journalistic career occurred in 1934 when his appendix burst while he was writing the story of a proxy fight to oust...