Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measurement of public taste and opinion as a service to sell to advertisers. He was the first to apply psychologists' findings about the mathematical laws of chance to polling. He analyzed standard tables of accuracy, found that with 5,000 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...
...away from 71st Street and its overly pugnacious inhabitants. But when he began another and longer series of novels laid in the same neighborhood, with characters akin to the Lonigans, but poorer and more quarrelsome, it seemed that James Farrell was obsessed with the dreariness of life in the section where he had grown up. First volume of the new series, A World I Never Made, told of Jim O'Neill, a goodhearted, leather-faced teamster, and his shrill, shapeless, ill-natured wife Lizz. It broke off when the O'Neills collected $1,000 after their...
...come to inspect, in the interests of national defense, the site for a bridge which Morgantown has long desired. He also said it was an appropriate time to "do a good turn" for some of the Capital's good neighbors, and such a bridge would "open up" their section of the country. Then he added: "This bridge is one of the things that has got to be done as fast as we can possibly do it." Result: Morgantowners beamed on Candidate Lewis...
...Collective agreements rest upon moral force rather than legal compulsion." Neither side wants law to back it up. Exception: wages (but only wages) in the weaving section of the cotton textile industry; in 1934, both sides sought an Act of Parliament which froze rates they had already collectively agreed upon. Cause: chiseling by unorganized employers and weavers...
...important rule is that the location selected be in the business section and preferably on the ground floor. Another is that no Centre may consist merely of a gallery; it has to have studios and work shops, too. A third is that the Centre, once opened, shall relate its exhibitions and teaching directly to what everybody knows in the community, not to what everybody ought to know. High-hatting is taboo...