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Word: polling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people here in Boston," he went on, "are the most loyal patriotic people on the continent--more people here are for McCarthy than anywhere else. And statistics prove this! More listened to the McCarthy hearings in Boston, according to an official poll, than anywhere else in the country." A woman in the balcony leaned over to her companion and said, "It's a shame what we've had to go through to do the right thing...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Monster Rally for McCarthy | 11/9/1954 | See Source »

What Makes David Run? Last year Brubeck won Down Beat's popularity and critics' poll, Metronome's "AllStar" Poll. "Man, they wail!" wrote Down Beat Jazz Editor Nat Hentoff of the quartet. "A kind of teamwork which is without parallel in the entire field of music," wrote Jazz Expert George Avakian, who brought the quartet to Columbia Records. "Complicated and extremely cerebral, [Brubeck's music] has tremendous drive and surprising warmth," wrote Critic John Hammond. This kind of music (for 45 minutes three to five times a night) earns the quartet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man on Cloud No. 7 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Radcliffe voted 396 to 369 to have stags at the Christmas Formal in an all-college poll on Monday, Joan Rubinstein '56, chairman of the 'Cliffe Social Committee, revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Vote to Invite Extra Stags to Holiday Formal | 11/5/1954 | See Source »

...town of Flint in a sporty grey-blue Buick Skylark. (He had it fitted with a wrap-around windshield long before it came out on the production models.) For Vice President Earl, who has built up the greatest industrial designing organization in the world, Curtice is a one-man poll to test new ideas. The trick, says Curtice, is simply to find the proper balance between the new and the old. Says he; "We must 'create' used cars by bringing out new ones. But the new cars must not be too radical, or they will not sell. Automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Battle of Detroit | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...worthless without a sure styling instinct. Last year Harlow Curtice looked over the roomful of experimental cars, picked the experimental Pontiac and Chewy station wagon as the cars the public would like best. His stylists disagreed, but Curtice's judgment was borne out by the research department poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Battle of Detroit | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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