Word: charting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grain and lumber. These he then dried in an oven, collecting the vapor in an absorbent material which he weighed before and after the baking. This is the way dealers grade their goods. Thus the researcher obtained figures on moisture content and electrical conductivity. These he correlated into a chart. So much electrical resistance meant so much water...
...Chicago, even the ubiquitous art of stumping has a peculiar technique. For example, Anton J. Cermak, wet Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator, got up on the stage of the Garrick Theatre and produced a photostatic copy of a hospital chart, showing that his Republican opponent, Otis F. Glenn, had received treatment for delirium tremens in 1912. Then Mr. Cermak cried: "I have affidavits here that this man [Glenn], accompanied by Prohibition agents, visits stills and breweries, running illegally, and drinks so much that they have to carry him from there...
...machine described at the meeting was the recording spectrophotometer devised by Professor Arthur Cobb Hardy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric's research staff. In the machine is a glass prism which breaks up the light reflected from any colored object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum, cosmetics...
During the past three years the number of men taking the Language Requirements examinations has lessened considerably according to figures obtained yesterday in the Recorder's office in University Hall. The percentage of men passing the various Latin French, and German examinations however was shown by a chart to follow no trend the passing of the barriers depending directly on the preparation of the candidates the demands of the tests markers of cetera...
...late John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips to achieve a sewer pipe monopoly in Queens Borough. In 1917 specifications were doctored to require the kind of pipe that only Mr. Phillips could sell. From 1917 to 1927 Mr. Phillips' prices were exorbitant. Lawyer Buckner dramatically displayed them on a chart. Mr. Connolly had the power to jockey contracts. He seemed to have awarded them as he wished. He mysteriously acquired thousands of dollars. Mr. Connolly, said many, looked like material for a long-time jailbird...