Word: chartes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally, there are the permanent records: the heart indexes on a four-way chart, the sound on a tape, and (if funds become available) a full visual record on Kinescope. Everything can be played back so that physicians and surgeons can devise improvements in their methods...
...record $285 billion; savings will probably set a new record. Though the cost of living edged to a new high in October, said the Labor Department, it was still only 1.1% above the level a year ago. Food prices, in fact, were down (see chart), and it looked as though prices have just about stabilized. The October rise was due largely to higher rents and medical charges, and such scattered items as beer and haircuts...
...needed energy come from? Surprisingly enough, the Woytinskys estimate that four-fifths will be obtained just the way it is now-from coal, oil, gas, water, wood and work animals-and only one-fifth from such new sources as the sun, the wind and the atom (see chart). While petroleum consumption "is certain to rise from decade to decade," there may be a worldwide shortage by the end of the century. Coal, on the other hand, sometimes regarded as a dying industry, is in for a big boost in the coming decades. Say the authors: "The use of fuels extracted...
...first sustained drop in U.S. cigarette consumption in 20 years, off 5.5% in the second quarter from 1952. Though 1953's total may still be higher than last year's, the rate of increase has slowed from 5% a year to a mere 1% (see chart). Tobacco stocks, by the latest count, totaled 1.9 billion Ibs., up 7% from a year...
Wellesley girls, a usually easy going group given more to worry over sign outs than studies last year started keeping exceptionally close track of exactly how they spent their time. Each day for six weeks they carefully went up to a little chart and to tailed up how many hours they spent studying, sleeping, and attending classes. They noted how much time they had spent working at jobs, how much time they had spent on exercise. Then they handed in the little charts, and the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Education picked up the sheets and started tabulating...