Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater than ever. I have an unshakable faith in the State, in its health, in its power, in its ability to withstand pressure, in its splendid army and in the unshakable spirit of the whole people. . . . I believe that on the basis of new proposals the Government will come to terms with all nationalities and will guarantee the Republic a future of prosperity. . . . Let us, then, stand firm...
...paying passenger. At Colombo, Ceylon, Timi caught malaria, died in Long's arms. Long saw to Timi's burial, then sailed on to London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from California to sail the last lap with him. Prime experience on a 75-day Atlantic crossing was getting overhauled in the Bay of Biscay by a Spanish Rightist patrol and being jailed overnight as would-be assassins of General Franco...
When word swept around that Old Westbury's young Mike Phipps, playing at No. 1, had come onto the field, directly from a doctor's office, with his mallet wrist strapped to keep a loose tendon in place, it looked bad for Sonny Whitney's side. A few moments later it looked even worse when Sonny was cracked on the forehead by Cousin Jock's mallet, carried to a first aid tent to have the gash stitched together. But, like most poloists who refuse to be downed unless they are out, Westbury's Back...
...predicted that Alfred Mossman Landon would be elected President in 1936, demonstrated that public opinion polls have a commercial value. Result is that at least half-a-dozen organizations today are periodically polling the U. S. public on what it eats, what it thinks, whether it expects to come to a good end. First modern scientific pollitician was big-eared, sharp-nosed Dr. Henry Charles Link, director of the Psychological Corporation's Psychological Service Centre in Manhattan. Dr. Link, who thinks mankind needs more religion and mathematics, started using a "psychological barometer" in 1932, three years before the FORTUNE...
...taste and opinion as a service to sell to advertisers. He was the first to apply psychologists' findings about the mathematical laws of chance to polling. He analyzed standard tables of accuracy, found that with 5,000 interviews of a carefully selected, economically proportional cross-section, he could come within 1% of the result he would get by polling the entire population; with 20,000 interviews, within one half of 1%. To make his sample representative in a general poll of public opinion, Dr. Link questions 4,000 to 10,000 people (depending on the question) in 70 cities...