Word: charting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Sea Lord Churchill used to drive gouty Admirals to distraction, by asking them suddenly, now and then: "What would you do if war were declared tomorrow?" He used to gaze nervously each morning at a chart on which the exact position of every major ship of every navy in the world was shown. And he used to make extremely hot-headed speeches advocating his "Home Rule" Irish policy...
...been suggested, for the benefit of those who listen to the game, "that they make a simple gridiron chart on paper beforehand, so that every detail of the progress of the ball and tactics of the players may be followed through out the game...
...Blue Blood!"; Blue Blood!! Blue Blood!!! chugged the engines of the Presidential yacht. Captain Adolphus Andrews thrust an ordinary pin into the spot on his chart which marks Plymouth, Mass., instructed his helmsman to make for that pin with all speed...
...Meantime Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, in charge of the Naval Air Unit assigned as coöperators to MacMillan's expedition to chart unknown polar regions for Science and the National Geographic Society (TIME, June 22 et seq.), reported his plans in detail to Washington...
...heart-beat record sent from New York to Chicago in seven minutes, in the form of a telephoned photograph, diagnosed: "Systolic murmur." Dr. Lambert, hearing over long-distance telephone, agreed; and the whole conversation was heard by all the physicians, who could check up the diagnosis themselves through the chart flashed on the screen...