Word: canvassed
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...inventory of the nation's health, especially of the chronic diseases and disabilities which impede people from earning enough money to live on. Some 3,500 quizzers, operating under the general direction of George St. John Perrott, chief statistician of the U. S. Public Health Service, will canvass 750,000 households with questions such as these...
...Pullman Company, whose headforemost practice frankly originated with considerations of ventilation, contemplates a canvass of passenger preference in air-conditioned sleepers in which the ventilation factor does not prevail...
...past the failure of all rules concerning solicitation has been almost wholly due to the difficulty of enforcing them. Under the new regulations, however, an insignia is to be worn by all students licensed to canvass, making their status clear to wary janitors and occupants of rooms in the college buildings. The students body will be able to cooperate with the University by receiving only those men whose right to solicit is assured by the official badge. All other salesmen in University buildings will be trespassers and should be treated accordingly...
...President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their annual reception for members of Congress. The Associated Press, after a canvass of costumers, reported that 120 full-dress suits were rented for the occasion...
...scheme of modern motormakers, Nomadic Readers Sharsmith and their kind have no place. Best that the Automobile Chamber of Commerce can offer: Let Readers Sharsmith buy used cars. Or canvass the manufacturers for unused cars of old models, or ask a manufacturer to build a special job with high clearance...