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He was barely whispering. "I won't be with you no use making it look as though we were doing anything unusual. If your graphs show anything or if Snap picks up any message bring it to me." He added aloud, "Well, it will be cool enough presently, Gregg." He sauntered away toward his chart room. "By heavens, what a relief!" Snap murmured as the current went on.
The boys followed him into the building, while Hassan squatted in the sun next to his car. The door opened directly into the main control room, a bewildering confusion of panels, instruments, and controls. There were several scientists and technicians clustered around Winston and Kerama. The group was studying Sanborn tracings, continuous graphs showing the lines traced by the incoming signals.
They assembled the data and with tables and arithmetical machines turned it into graphs. Then all these graphs were fed into the machine. There were curves, and sine-curves, abrupt breaking lines but the answer that came when all were compounded was a perfect diagram of a flight of four steps, descending in unequal treads to zero. Kendall looked at it for long minutes.
"Disrupt the flow of crystal and you'll set off major repercussions in the system's economy." "We know that, Major," said Walters. "That's the prime reason for this meeting." "May I make a suggestion, sir?" asked Strong. "Go ahead, Steve," said Walters. "While these graphs of Joan's show us what's happening, I think it will take on-the-spot investigations to find out why it's happening."
Getting on?" "No," said Devin bitterly, "I'm getting off. Look at these results." He brought over a sheaf of graphs, with explanatory tables attached. Rapidly Buck ran through them with him. Most of them were graphs of functions of light, considered as a wave in these experiments. "H-m-m-m not very encouraging. Looks like you've got the field but it just snaps shut on itself and won't work.
But one must not forget the other onerous duties, keeping up to date all the pretty coloured charts and graphs in the Company Office so that the clerical staff could see how many soldiers they had, where they were and how many were sick.
Then this began to go, and the leaping blue flame grew taller, and stronger. "We're on the track I'm going to stop here, and calculate. Bring the data " Kendall shut off the machine, and went to the calculation room. Swiftly he selected already prepared graphs, graphs of the math he had worked on. Devin came soon, and others.
It is a weakness in a democracy to think of people in terms of graphs, and their welfare in terms of calories; that is, if you hope to be President of that democracy not if you are content to be its excellent Secretary of Commerce. When he came to Washington as a Food Administrator, he brought with him an old associate, a professor from California.
So I have not the memory of Chinon; I have only the regret. But regret, as well as memory, has its visions; especially when, like memory, it is assisted by photo- graphs. The castle of Chinon in this form appears to me as an enormous ruin, a mediaeval fortress, of the extent almost of a city. It covers a hill above the Vienne, and after being impregnable in its time is in- destructible to-day.
They have brought with them each a jargon of his own, as well as filing cabinets, card catalogues, graphs, loose-leaf contraptions, and above all the perfectly sound ideal of an executive who sits before a flat-top desk, one sheet of typewritten paper before him, and decides on matters of policy presented in a form ready for his rejection or approval.
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