Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the school year the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants with typing jobs, entertainment positions, chore work, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur work, delivery work, and window washing following in order. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modeling for artists, or directing traffic...
...this number, a standard size for the past ten Freshman classes, approximately 900 will be newcomers, while dropped and provisional Freshmen will make up the rest...
Even more disturbing than the lack of censors was the virtual absence of any news whatever from the Allied fronts. Reporters, barred for the present from the scene of war itself (though a limited number are expected to go later), were dependent on brief and cryptic official communiques. Europe had some 10,000 newspapermen covering the war (including A. P.'s 664,* U. P.'s 500, something like 7,750 men employed by foreign agencies) and most of them had nothing to report. Result was that they picked up rumors where they could. All week long...
...their names to the register. Government departments and industries send in their demands for trained personnel. The Central Register officials then match qualifications against demands, suggest a specific person for a specific job. If mutually satisfactory, the appointment is made. At week's end a large but undisclosed number of scientists had registered but few allocations had been put through...
...booming, energy-oozing sociologist and scientific philosopher who used to live and work in Vienna, now lives and works in The Netherlands. Some years ago he invented the "pictograph" or "isotype" method of conveying sociological statistics by quantitative symbols (a convenient and striking dodge that for rows of dead numbers substitutes conventionalized pictures of men, machines, factories, whatever, each picture-unit representing any number the statistician states). He now heads the International Foundation for Visual Education. Out of his feeling, and that of his group in Vienna, that science should be a unified endeavor with a unified language, there grew...