Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last census) Congressman Upshaw's constituents numbered...
...white rat, a pumpkin, the new tail of a tadpole (when the first tail is cut off), a colony of yeast cells in a sugar solution, a colony of fruit flies in a milk bottle, grow in the same way as the populations of countries according to their census counts. That is, the rate of growth is slow at first, becomes rapidly faster and faster, and then after a time gradually becomes slower and slower...
Some 150 women's organizations were represented, not a very large number considering that according to the census of 1920 about one in every five persons "gainfully employed" is a woman-that is to say, there are more than eight million women workers in this country. At the meeting were women teachers, lawyers, salesclerks, office workers, factory workers., Government employes, representatives of the American Federation of Labor, of the International Typographical Union, of the Boot and Shoe Worker's Union, of the United Garment Workers, of the United Textile Workers, of the Women's Trade Union League...
Last year the Federal Census Bureau conducted the first comprehensive study ever made of the prevalence of insanity in the U. S. From the data thus obtained, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene prepared a report which, published last week, showed...
...Bureau of Census announced...