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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to make the public conscious of the danger of the United States becoming entangled in war if President Roosevelt disregards his campaign guarantee to prevent this involvement, many Harvard "No Wilson Promises" Committees have already been organized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Aims to Awaken U.S. to Entanglements | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

...seldom samples the opinions of more than 5,000 citizens, chosen according to age, occupation, sex, economic condition, geographical distribution. (Gallup, in his State-by-State polls, may question as many as 60,000 people.) Roper's interviewers are carefully trained, rigidly supervised to prevent personal opinions from affecting their work. Always he checks back, querying interviewees by post card, to make sure that his interviewers have been accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Polls on Trial | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...been said that the advance permissions rigama role is designed to prevent "casualt droppings-in." What's the matter with casual droppings-in? And as for the at-least-three-persons requirement, a disgruntled student remarked at the time of a parietal furore in 1936: "Most of the suites have more than one room, and you will find that two determined couples are just as effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO THIRD PERSON | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...fact that he has been dismissed from the R.O.T.C. will not after Maple's standing in the college, for he will receive course credit for three years of Military Science Work. Consequently his expulsion will not prevent him from graduating this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fourth Year Military Science Student Ousted By Department From Course For Nazi Views | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

...Cully" Culliton managed to break through for several good runs, but the Eliot boys always rallied in time to prevent a score. Frank Snyder and Dave Romsoy starred for Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLD COAST TIES ELIOT, WINS '40 HOUSE FOOTBALL CROWN | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

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