Word: canvassing
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...importance, politically speaking, of such a canvass of national opinion is evident. When the returns are completely tabulated both state and national legislatures will have a definite basis of fact to work upon. The straw vote will show which way the wind of public opinion is hlewing and may well point to the constructive remedy for the present tangled situation. There is hope that the period of floundering in the prohibition morass may be drawing to a close...
...canvass of student opinion conducted by the CRIMSON last May, proved conclusively that any opportunity for evening work in the laboratories would be taken advantage of in the vast majority of cases. And reasons for this expression are not far to seek. Men who have classes in the mornings, and those taking sciences are not usually the type who choose their classes according to the hours at which they come, find the major portion of their afternoon time taken up in the laboratory. This precludes any opportunity for outside activities, and in some cases even a normally healthy amount...
...directors plan to bring their which wind drive to a close with a canvass of Harvard Square by brush-men who have expressed their willingness to do what ever possible to help the society in us work of aiding the women cleaners...
...York's commercial aristocrats, the great traders, founders of more than one great American house; New York and New England's ship builders, among them the famous Donald McKay; the Yankee skippers and the hard-bitten tars who hauled their canvass, stood their watch--all these are deftly, subtly portrayed...
...Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of College in his Sophomore year...