Word: canvassing
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...Employment Office has been doing its job reasonably well within a limited scope. It provided a clearing house for 2000 students to find work last year, but it has not operated as an aggressive agency. A thorough canvass of alumni in this area could turn up more jobs; and the offer of several Boston hotel managers last fall to hire students for part-time work demonstrates the fact that there are plenty of jobs to be had in Metropolitan Boston...
...with a rally of 3,000 vociferous supporters in King George's Hall. From now until election day, John Edwards will campaign from soapboxes at the mill gates and in the workers' canteens; he will tramp Blackburn's narrow streets in a steady house-to-house canvass, and he will make numberless speeches to street-corner gatherings from his loudspeaker...
Although the campaign directors have not disclosed their actual goal, they will canvass every house in the college with the hope of receiving $10 from every student...
...disappearance of those cards from the Harvard scene is difficult to explain, but University police confirmed an informal canvass of the houses Tuesday which implied that the football lotteries were not to be found in the Square...
Solicitors will continue to canvass today...