Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occurred to me that a census of America's college men as to whether or not Anica Los is right in saying Gentlemen Prefer Blondes would be of great interest to all newspaper readers. Ever since the book first appeared this controversy has been going on, and now that the play has opened, discussion has become more heated. College students should be able to decide the issue, and I thought you would be in a position to put the question to your fellow students...
...Speaker and Members of the House, the first recorded census was the enumeration made by Moses in the wilderness as set forth in the Book of Numbers...
...Rome, for the purpose of dividing the population into classes and groups, enumerations were made every five years, followed by a ceremony of purification or lustration from which these five-year periods were named lustrums, and the word "census" was derived from Censor, the name of the officer in charge of these ceremonies...
...went on to describe the history of census taking, to expound the fact that the Constitution directs that a census shall be taken every ten years so that representation in the House may be in proportion to population, and then she insisted it should pass a reapportionment bill, which it recently refused to do (TIME, April 19), although there has been no reapportionment since 1911. She concluded...
...electoral college following the next presidential election will be based upon a census made 18 years before. In case of a close presidential election this might be a very serious matter and might possibly be carried to court to decide the validity of the election...