Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polls. No magic is involved in Emil Hurja's election predictions. His method is simply to avoid opinion, stick to statistical facts. Letters received by the Democratic National Committee and at the White House are all carefully cataloged by subject and place of origin, thereby giving Mr. Hurja some clues to public opinion. His main reliance is on polls, public & private, local & national. Little polling is done specially for him, but he ferrets out many polls of which the public never hears and adds them to his store of information. In former years the straw votes conducted...
Early last autumn Mr. Hurja made a trip to Manhattan to lunch with Dr. George Gallup. For several years Dr. Gallup had been taking polls for businessmen, particularly advertisers & publishers, who wanted to find out the preferences, buying and reading habits of the public. His method, adapted from scientific research, was to sample a section of the public big enough to be statistically accurate, representative enough to include day-laborers, skilled workers, farmers, white-collar employes, millionaires, etc. in the same proportions in which they are found in the population at large. Mr. Hurja was interested because Dr. Gallup...
...commenting upon the time required for the painting of a three quarter figure. Martin stated that it varies widely according to the method employed by the artist. His own technique, he said, is based upon direct painting, beginning immediately to develop the drawing, form, and color with the brush. This method, he feels, tends to produce work with greater vitalfty and accuracy because the mind apparently operates most efficiently at top speed...
...devote their undergraduate years to such a broad fundamental preparation and then pursue one or the other, or a combination, of two courses. The one is graduate study at the university and the other is actual experience with a training emphasis. The combination is found in the internship method used, as far as the Federal Government at Washington is concerned, by the National Institute's training program. This internship training provides not only experience as a personal assistant to a leading governmental official holding a position of responsibility but also includes educational guidance by the staff of the Institute...
...Beebe handles personalities and events alike in the same warm, colorful manner, unconscious of the historical method or historical convention. He catches an atmosphere and makes a legend come alive. He shows contradictions and complexities and contrasts but puts them into a single and nicely-wrought whole. Let him explain...