Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history as saints and martyrs, organizers and spiritual guides.* Orthodox and Roman Catholic canon laws forbid females to administer the sacraments, but Protestantism opened the door with its conception of the priesthood of all believers, and in recent years, women ministers have become almost a sectarian commonplace. The U.S. census for 1950 reported an alltime high of 6,777 -4.1% of the total number of clergymen...
...Christmas. I didn't want to be working on Christmas. I decided that if I liked a position, I'd stay, but if I didn't, I'd move on." He moved on and on for the next 28 years. He got jobs as a census taker, factory worker, salesman. Once, during the Depression, he worked his way around South America on the tug Mira Flores. A storm disabled the boat, and "we lived off flying fish for four or five days. Caught them, bit off the heads and ate the rest...
City officials are unable to account for the recent population drop of 10,000 citizens which was revealed in the 1955 Cambridge census...
Curry answered that he had checked the accuracy of the census and had found it completely in order. He suggested that the families in Cambridge must be getting smaller, since there was no noticeable change in the number of dwelling units...
Councillor Charles Watson has asked the Council to hire an official U.S. census taker to check the new city figures...