Word: charting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That two such smart-chart publications should have thus jointly trifled with the bachelorhood of M. Doumergue seemed, to Frenchmen in the U. S., inexcusable...
WHOOPS, DEARIE!?Peter Arno? Simon & Schuster ($1.75). Their weekly parade in the New Yorker (Manhattan smart-chart) has long been an event?Pansy Smiff and Abagail Flusser of the muffs and flounces and awry plumed bonnets, their potato noses high in air, their cavernous, Cruikshankian mouths thrown open in something like...
...Yorker, weekly smart-chart, last week published an anecdote about a gentleman with a familiar but "unplaceable" face. The gentleman had entered a Manhattan sport goods store and inquired of the clerk: "What do you charge for blowing up old squash tennis balls that have gone...
Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
Oatheimer also hopes to determine the exact altitude of Tsar Mountain and to make photographs of the creek south of Tsar for the Survey. He also intends to map Tsar Creek, which flower into the Columbia River, and to chart whatever other streams are found in the locality...