card file Concepts

A Burglar's Guide to the City

by Geoff Manaugh · 17 Mar 2015 · 238pp · 75,994 words

proposed thoroughly and rigorously updating the Parisian address system. This would require a behemoth piece of machinery that operated a bit like an oversize index-card file—or what Chamayou describes as a “huge archiving machine linked to a map in a central room”—and some arithmetical cartography. “Paris was to be

Culture Shock! Costa Rica 30th Anniversary Edition

by Claire Wallerstein · 1 Mar 2011

, remember that in Tico libraries (except some university libraries) you cannot just browse among the shelves—you must look for what you want in the card files, fill out a form and give it to the librarian, who will find the publication. You cannot take books out of the library. GENERAL Amcham

Autotools

by John Calcote · 20 Jul 2010 · 555pp · 119,733 words

this case, because the CLEANFILES variable has one caveat: It won't remove directories, only files. Each of the rm commands that removes a wild-card file specification refers to at least one directory. I'll show you a proper use of CLEANFILES shortly. Regardless of how well your unit tests clean

Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965

by Francis O. French, Colin Burgess and Paul Haney · 2 Jan 2007 · 647pp · 161,908 words

annoyance, everything was going according to plan. While Liberty Bell 7 continued its descent Grissom heard from the pilot of the radio relay airplane, designated Card File 23. "We are heading directly toward you," the pilot announced, as the spacecraft passed three thousand feet. Then the first of the rescue helicopters, flying

On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World

by Jason Burke · 21 May 2025 · 323pp · 108,377 words

swung rapidly from ranting anger to utter passivity and she began disappearing for weeks at a time. From inside the house he fetched a dirty card file full of documents. After a year of bizarre behaviour, a local doctor had apparently diagnosed his mother as ‘paranoid schizophrenic’ and referred her to a

Of a Fire on the Moon

by Norman Mailer · 2 Jun 2014 · 477pp · 165,458 words

site obliques, the correction of typos on the APS DPS fuel card, the listing of three adjustments in the Mission Rule’s GO–NO GO card file, the check on the gyroscope drift, the discussion of abort programs above or below low gate with consequent loss of thrust axis, the status report

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

by Justin Fox · 29 May 2009 · 461pp · 128,421 words

you no bananas?’”27 By the second half of the 1920s, Fisher had also become a big financial success. Years before, he had devised a card-filing system to help him keep track of his many endeavors. Fisher’s “Index Visible” filing cards, cut so that the first line of each was

The Unicorn's Secret

by Steven Levy · 6 Oct 2016

the network. As the project evolved, he and Ira arrived at a protocol. The names of the members of the network were kept in a card file maintained by Hallett’s secretary. The list eventually grew to more than 350 names in more than twenty countries. Each time Ira came with a

Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity

by Edward Tenner · 8 Jun 2004 · 423pp · 126,096 words

and public health to seating. In the later 1920s, the office supply manufacturer Fortschritt of Freiburg im Breisgau, best known for state-of-the-art card file systems, marketed a Fortschritt-Stuhl (“Progress Chair”) with a spring-loaded back support system—unlike the rigid Tan-Sad and Flambo—and a lever under

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

by Dava Sobel · 6 Dec 2016 · 442pp · 110,704 words

could read both French and German, the other two languages of science. She fattened the decks of cards in the existing bibliography and created new card files as new variables came to light. In mid-April, when Mrs. Fleming fully recovered her strength, and no longer needed to take a carriage to