Word: charting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back. We shall live for many years in a restless world and may find that the close contacts between the nations serve to emphasize friction rather than to advance the unity of men. A crisis in this sort of world may not be a turning point in the fever chart but a long sustained plateau of tension...
Each night, for 16 nights starting last Wednesday, a chart is locked in a laboratory at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, containing extra-sensory symbols arranged in five rows of five each. The symbols are a star, square, circle, cross and wavy line; and five of each, placed in a random fashion, are used in every chart...
Luxury Liner (MGM) floats Metro's musical stock company in a welter of romantic complications which could be followed only with a navigation chart. The tangles are slowly and rather painfully unsnarled to the accompaniment of songs by Lauritz Melchior, Marina Koshetz and young Jane Powell, who is expected to carry the burden of a clumsy plot about a sea captain (George Brent) and his amorous passengers. Miss Powell makes a game try against heavy odds. The handling of Mr. Melchior, who also tries hard, is in the Hollywood tradition: two pan shots of enraptured listeners to every shot...
Chernus churns up the buying fever with a score chart posted in his sales office. Each cream-colored pin in the chart stands for a house being looked over, each red pin for a house sold-and it tells every waverer at a glance that he is wavering against time. "Our greatest sales," Chernus says, "are between 2 and 4 in the afternoon when the crowds are thickest" (and when the score chart bristles with pins...
...Automotive Engineers. In outline, the job looks simple. A "nuclear reactor" (essentially a controlled, slow-exploding atom bomb) gives off most of its energy as heat. One way to do the trick is to put a reactor in place of the combustion chambers of a turbojet engine (see chart). A compressor forces air into the forward end of the engine. Heated and expanded by the nuclear reactor, the air shoots toward the rear end. On the way it spins a turbine, which runs the compressor through a shaft. The force of the jet escaping from the tailpipe pushes the airplane...