Word: poll
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...varsity's high-scoring center, Bill Cleary, was named yesterday as Ney England's outstanding college player in a poll of sportswriters and radio men. With teammate Doug Manchester, Cleary was unanimously selected as center on the All New England team last weekend...
...poll, conducted under a grant from the Fund for the Republic, showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans were worried solely about personal problems. Another nine percent said they never worried about anything...
...Checking up on the effectiveness of official pleas to students to "stay South" after graduation, Mississippi Southern College's Student Printz took a poll, learned that 68% of the 3,400 undergraduates planned to move away from Mississippi after graduation. What can the state do to keep its best-educated sons and daughters at home? The students' answer: Mississippi must provide "better schools, more industry, more enlightened public officials, lower taxes, and . . . legalized liquor...
Stockbrokers, sure that new customers are hidden all over the prosperous U.S., have never agreed on where to look for them or what kind of sales talk to use. To find some of the answers, the New York Stock Exchange hired three research organizations to poll the public. Reported the pollsters: customers are almost everywhere. For example, 16 million nonshare-owners' households want to know more about common stocks...
After the Burr program had been in effect only four months, in the spring of 1953, a poll of the new Senior tutors found they all were concerned by the little time left for academic work. This situation has continued, and some tutors today face the prospect of losing the chance for advancement in their departments because of time they have lost in administrative work...