Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pollster Gallup defends the accuracy of his poll with a mathematical formula: "Suppose there are 7,000 white beans and 3,000 black beans well churned up in a barrel. If you scoop out 100 of them, you'll get approximately 70 white beans and 30 black in your hand and the range of your possible error can be computed mathematically. As long as the barrel contains many more beans than your handful, the proportion will remain within that margin of error 997 times out of 1,000." The reverse, he maintains, is equally true: a proportion...
Thus Pollster Gallup's problem is: 1) to work out the proportions of the barrel, i.e., determine the true social, political and economic complexion of the U.S. people; 2) choose his handful (people to be interviewed) accordingly; 3) make sure that the two correspond exactly...
While Harvard's serum fared well against the Tiger, the bottom of the barrel team which Coach Jim Nuland had to field was outclassed all the way. Last week at Cambridge, a strong Crimson team had been definitely upset by the Tigers...
...love for people, a remarkable love that is shown swelling up within him as he gossips with a barber and watches a radio technician chewing gum. But the most fantastic demonstration of earthy affection appears when Tracy plays wing-tip tag with a business underling over an airfield. They barrel-roll among the clouds for all the world like long lost brothers. This is during the people-are-everything stage. A little later, when Tracy momentarily shifts to the votes-are-everything viewpoint, he tells the same underling to stop playing and get back to building airplanes...
...year-old game of "court tennis." In fact, there have been some noble tries. There have been court tennis players who used champagne bottles for bats, or played the game while riding ponies. And an 18th Century Frenchman went so far as to serve while crouched in a barrel, returning to the barrel between strokes. None of these refinements lasted: the game was baffling enough...