Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup had assured himself that polls on toothpaste and politics were one & the same. He was also convinced that the famed Literary Digest poll was heading for a disastrous cropper. The millions of Digest postcards were mailed on the basis of telephone and auto registration lists and took no account of the low-income voters who had swung solidly behind the New Deal...
...Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are smaller and denser than the outer ones (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). Perhaps the most remarkable peculiarity is that the outer planets possess almost all the "angular momentum" (energy of rotation) in the system. Any satisfactory theory of the solar system's origin must account for these "regularities...
...Mother Disc. Dr. ter Haar prefers his own modification of one of the earliest modern theories, originally proposed by Immanuel Kant in 1755. Kant suggested that the planets condensed gradually from a gaseous envelope surrounding the sun. Later cosmogonists discarded this theory mostly because it did not account for the greater angular momentum of the outer planets. But Dr. ter Haar believes that all Kant needs is a little tinkering...
There is nothing muddling about his new book, The Spanish Story. Here is the best-documented account so far of Franco's devious dealings with both the Axis and the Allies during the years 1939-44. Feis needed little filling in on the shifts and turns of the U.S. policy toward Franco; he was instrumental in shaping it. What gives his book its incisive and even exciting quality is his skillful use of captured enemy documents...
...dozen pages which describe the climactic mission into Germany (based largely on an account of the Regensburg raid which Lay wrote for the Satevepost) must be close to the best writing about air combat to come out of World...