Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shapley described these stars in the course of his discussion on explorations in space which may facilitate the determination of its limits, and throw new light on mathematical theories about its nature. He explained that these new stars were discovered during a census being taken at the Harvard observatory of the thousands of remote galaxies which serve as distant "mile posts" in space, and by the aid of which Dr. Shapley is seeking new knowledge of the stellar universe...
...April 26?Census Sunday in England. First census (1801) figures: 8,893,000. Last census...
...King Prajadhipok* and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam; at Portal, N. Dak. from Vancouver, B. C.; U. S. residence during their stay: "Ophir Hall" at Purchase, N. Y., grandiose, high-walled estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. April 26-Census Sunday in England. First census (1801) figures: 8,893,000. Last census (1921): 37,887,000. May 1-May Day, International Labor Day. May 1-Oct. 1-International Colonial & Overseas Exposition; at Vincennes. Business...
...discovered they were being impoverished by grafting tax collectors; got the grafters removed and put in his own men. When he wanted to build a house he had his policemen round up vagrants whom he turned into paid workmen. Some of his other activities: judge, lighthouse keeper, sanitary inspector, census taker, doctor. The baby problem he solved by sending for the late Dr. Luther Emmet Holt's Care & Feeding of Children...
Declared Secretary Lamont: "Since the Census there has been evidence of a slight but unmistakable improvement...