Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Population given in millions; areas given in thousands. All figures are approximate and taken from last census returns of the country concerned...
...belief in its efficiency which has been encouraged by the reports of English educationalists who have been welcomed in the United States and shown many admirable schools which were not perhaps fair samples of the whole system. These visits took place before the war, in days when an optimistic census had declared that there were only some 8% of illiterates in the whole vast area. English commissions were satisfied that this country had a very dangerous competitor in scholarship, in science, in general liberal education across the Atlantic." Then came the draft report that 25% of the drafted men were...
According to the CRIMSON census lately made, summer will scatter the undergraduates far and wide. More than one-half of the college intends to travel. Of this number the percentage going West and the percentage going abroad is very nearly equal. In general, going West has no formidable connotation, but means a ranch or a pack-trip with an unconscious study of the art of Nature; while a trip abroad means steamers and hotels, with a very conscious study...
...Department of Agriculture horse-census shows that there are 20,550,000 horses in the United States. There were...
...nearest cotton futures have fluctuated around the high level of 31? recently established, with speculative dips and spurts of small scope. The Census Bureau's report of domestic consumption as 567,000 bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are taken into consideration, it will be seen that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River...