Word: souping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commodity tax comes off canned fruit, fruit juices, vegetables, soup, fish, meats and poultry, breakfast cereals, spaghetti, macaroni and wheel chairs. This will cost the government $20 million a year, may save the consumer as much as $30 million...
...problems as how to get around the "prestige answer" (what the "respondent" thinks he ought to think) and how to evaluate the "intensity factor" (how strongly the "respondent" feels about it). To solve such difficulties Pollster Roper has developed the "cafeteria" question, which gives a choice of answers from soup to nuts. Pollster Gallup has developed a system called the "quintamensional plan of question design," which measures not only the yes & no, but also the "respondent's" knowledge and his reasons for & against any issue...
...soldiers would not permit the Russians to carry in food for the guards inside the building. Instead, a U.S. lieutenant colonel inspected Russian soup, bread, coffee and cigarettes, then permitted German policemen to carry in the food...
...campaign to be undertaken during the year. This request is fully warranted by the extraordinary conditions. There is no need to recite a series of melodramatic statistics. When a university president writes that "in practise, we chiefly need a second meal daily, even if it were no more than soup," the existence of extraordinary conditions should become abundantly clear...
...volunteers were prepared for semi-starvation by three months' good eating with a daily average of 3,492*calories. Then for six months they were fed two carefully rationed meals a day totaling 1,570 calories. Sample meals: pancakes, syrup, applesauce, cornbread and jam in the morning; potato soup, stew and potatoes in the evening...