Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience solemnly agreed. And in a poll taken by the Summer News, most students gravely declared that they had been academically motivated in coming to Harvard Summer School. The opportunity to take courses not offered elsewhere was mentioned as an intensely significant factor...
...similar manner, despite their own intentions, most of those answering the poll gave "social" motives as the reasons for other students' decision to attend Summer School. "Fun," "marriage," or "curiosity" were listed three times more frequently than a desire to take courses. "The majority," one girl said, "seem to have come for the social life." (Her own reason was to "pick up a course I didn't have time for during the year...
...weatherman, political forecasters have need for ultrasensitive barometers. Partisan winds can shift suddenly, quickening hopes in one camp, dashing dreams in the other. Poll Taker George Gallup's moistened finger has sensed a freshening Republican breeze that could promise more campaign thunder and lightning than the Democrats had predicted. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Changing Campaign. And nowhere is a worrying Democrat more worried about changing political pressures than in California. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS' cover story, Just Plain...
With four candidates splitting the vote as they did last week, there was no chance that Alessandri could poll more than 50% of the vote, as required by the constitution. Congress will have to choose between him and Runner-Up Allende within 50 days. But the voters clearly chose Businessman Alessandri, and Congress traditionally backs the people's choice...
...carriers, and 40% owned by wealthy German Cigarette Maker Philipp F. Reemtsma. Vernicos and Reemtsma put up $2,400,000 of their own money, borrowed the rest from German banks, got the big Hamburg-American Line (which has 41 freighters, one passenger ship) to manage the Hanseatic. In a poll of transatlantic traffic, they discovered a trend to tourist-class travel, shrewdly made the 1,254-passenger Hanseatic 93% tourist class and expect full booking...