Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week bustling little Sociology Professor Ernest Watson Burgess adjusted his spectacles and began to read a long, technical paper to his class at the University of Chicago. As the 51-year-old bachelor proceeded, his marriageable students became more and more attentive. When he finished, he had given them a test-proof formula for choosing a wife or husband, for predicting whether a marriage would be successful...
Professor Burgess was reporting what he and his colleague, Dr. Leonard S. Cottrell Jr., had learned in one of the most thorough statistical studies of marriage ever made in the U. S. It had taken seven years, and the guinea pigs were 526 young married couples in Illinois. Married from one to six years, they were mostly city folk, college or high-school graduates, Protestants, more than half with an income of $1,800 or more...
Reports from Radford, Virginla, yesterday turned the search for the missing William Burgess to the South, as police in that city said that a man answering his description had been identified by three people, as he sold magazines in a door-to-door canvass...
Charles II. Howell, Radford police chief, last night told the CRIMSON that a Mrs. W. B. Thurman had identified Burgess from the picture on the police poster, as had two local barbers. The man said his name was Donald Hicks, and gave the Chicago address of his sales manager to subscribers...
Police again yesterday said that Burgess's body is positively not in the Charles, despite the recent testimony of Robert Capella, who said he saw him drown. Amnesia has been considered as a possible cause of the disappearance...