Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This sort of integration has occurred to make the town of Princeton the veritable hub of the country's mushrooming public-opinion polling industry. George Gallup, whose chief employment is with Young and Rubicam's advertising agency, located his polling headquarters in Princeton for the sake of proximity to his farm in the nearby New Jersey hills. Quite coincidentally at the same point in the mid-Thirties psychologist Hadley Cantril succeeded in setting up the University-sponsored Office of Public Opinion Research, sole complete archives of all findings by the various agencies, as well as "Public Opinion Quarterly," the single...
Princetonians themselves will be the guinea pigs in specific researches coming up. But it will all go on in a quite and unobstrusive way. Since no recommendations concerning methods of instruction or other matters of educational policy lie within the scope of the project, fact-finding for its own sake will be the order of the day. The method of attack will consist in "critical objective analysis, proceeding a step at a time from the simple to the complex as results accumulate...
...boys found their way eased into each University grid contest. Supervision was casual to say the least; many of the tickets given out were resold by the shrewder, and of the kids who really went to the game, an acquisitive minority stripped up seat boards for sweet nostalgia's sake...
...partnership between the colorful general sweep of his field and the down-to-earth mechanisms within it typifies his outlook. For nation-forming inherently requires planning, he insists with a sideswipe at "the fluffy talk of the last 15 years which had to be sloughed off for the sake of something really important at the core." The jig isn't up: "this way they won't label me a planner and I can get my work done." People got awfully excited about a word. Gaus is a scholar alive with excitement about the thing happening...
...when the Prime Minister, at an Agriculture Federation outing, forthrightly spoke his views about Canada's burgeoning socialist CCF Party. After praising his own government's efforts to establish social and economic security, the P.M. said: "Let me warn you to beware of change just for the sake of change; or what, in national affairs, is even more dangerous, against accepting at its face value any untried Utopia, or any proclaimed panacea for social ills...