Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, with a heard as "pure as driven snow," Kitty retired in 1935. His "English 2: Six Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the mid-year and final exams with their long memory question and 60 to 70 "spot" passages were the terror of generations. During his reign he insisted on "Shakspere" as the correct spelling. His students will never forget the pearl gray fiannel suit he invariably wore, the glasses that flew up his lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his pungent injunctions against coughing...
...stars the Lane sisters, Claude Rains, and John Garfield. As yet it marks the best of the "homey" stories with which Hollywood has been recently concerned, having more originality and better acting than the successful "Love Finds Andy Hardy." Garfield, whose first name on Broadway was Jules, is without question the most distinctive, actor to be acquired by the movies this year. On the same program is "Campus Confessions" with Betty Grable and Hank Luisetti, Stanford's basketball miracle...
...which are often indiscernable in living organisms, can be seen. Moreover, although the original plant fiber has disappeared, the oil has been preserved, in a hardened state, thus forming a perfect mummified picture of the cells. Whether this oil has been an important source of natural petroleum is a question geologists have been studying for years...
...interviews of a carefully selected, economically proportional cross-section, he could come within 1% of the result he would get by polling the entire population; with 20,000 interviews, within one half of 1%. To make his sample representative in a general poll of public opinion, Dr. Link questions 4,000 to 10,000 people (depending on the question) in 70 cities and towns throughout the U. S., in four economic groups (10% with incomes over $4,000, 30% $2,000 to $4,000, 40% $1,000 to $2,000 and 20% below $1,000). Because mailed ballots are unreliable...
Prime refinement claimed by Dr. Link is scientific phrasing of questions. He warned that careless or dishonest polliticians can easily rig a poll. Changing one or two words, he said, sometimes changes responses by 10% to 20%. Thus, 69% of a group who were asked "Are we headed for prosperity?" answered "Yes," but when the question was changed to "Are we headed for a reasonable prosperity?" the yeses increased...