Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...percent of high school graduates today as compared with 30 years ago and so utterly unscientific and biased when dealing with personalities and economic philosophy. From the latter standpoint there is a general consensus of opinion that he found what he expected to find, that we have a cross section of Lynd's mind rather than a true picture of the people of this community...
...down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed, in carrying rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania...
...FORTUNE'S Quarterly Surveys are conducted by a staff of 50 field workers who interview 5,000 citizens each quarter. The 5,000-person "sample" is a carefully gauged cross-section of the U. S., proportional to geographic divisions (e.g., 7% from the Pacific Coast), to rural v. urban population (e.g., 56% from cities, 44% from the country), to economic levels, sex, age, occupation, color, size of community. Only adults are interviewed. Results are believed to be accurate for the U. S. as a whole within a 2 % margin of error...
...Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel-by-the-Sea down to William Randolph Hearst's huge San Simeon ranch and San Luis Obispo, opens up a whole unspoiled section to motorists...
...central panel, fairly near the centre," said Artist Bouché, "are three deer and they are just grazing and standing around. I just painted them because they are so sweet." The right and left panels, which must stand alone since the central section will often be covered by a cinema screen, show an Indian and a surveyor gazing at the landscape and cowboys rounding up buffalo...