Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup pollsters asked ordinary U.S. citizens what they would do if they were President. Most had a simple platform: "I would help people and try to make them happy." The people's concept of the U.S. President, Gallup reported, was of a benevolent father, a helper and protector of the common...
...Gallup pollsters reported that 71% of all U.S. citizens speak no foreign language, that 47% don't even want to. Of those who wished they did, most wanted to learn Spanish or French...
...more dangerous is the assumption that new norms can be created by a statistical study of the actual sex practices of the day. Here we have the modern sociological approach to the problem of norms reduced to its final absurdity . . . All we need in the future is an accurate Gallup poll. That would be the final triumph of a 'scientific' civilization...
...Western Union came news last week which in the long run would weigh heavily in the balance of power and peace. While the U.S. Congress still debated the issue, a majority of Americans had come to believe that their country should form an entangling alliance with Western Union. The Gallup poll reported that 65% were now in favor of U.S. military guarantees to Western Europe. Those were sentiments and opinions. But the Russians could understand them, or a Frenchman, or even a man from Mars...
...anyone doubts that baseball is the favorite U.S. game, there are statistics to prove it. Last week, a Gallup poll showed that a whopping 39% of Americans enjoy watching baseball more than any other sport.- Next in line of popularity: foot ball (17%), basketball (10%), horse racing (4%), boxing...