Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...library consists of some 16,000 books and publications on the period and includes a copy of the famous Princeton University "Index of Christian Iconography" and the Dumbarton Oaks "Census of Byzantine Objects in American Collections...
...refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having burdened Canada with them. Said their former friends: "The sect ... is self-centred, self-righteous, and intolerant." "No more impenetrable group of people exist...
...library, consisting of about 11,000 books and periodicals, is chiefly concerned with the study of the art and culture of the eastern empire. A census will be made of all medieval objects of art in the United States and Canada, to be completed and made available to scholars in another two years...
...note from your report (TIME, Sept. 30) on the 1940 census that you attribute New Mexico's growth to "discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down" in New Mexico...
Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission published its report to null a 121-page study of "The Distribution of Ownership in the 200 Largest Non-Financial* Corporations." Based on 1937 figures, it whittled the Lundberg roster to 13 families, was considerably less personal than his census of Du Pont bathrooms, considerably more dogged in tracking down actual shareholdings (Lundberg had estimated fortunes by 1924 tax returns). It found...