Word: statisticians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford and Citroen have made marvelous machines at very reasonable prices,'' said a Ministry of Agriculture statistician, "but until they invent a traction engine that can be eaten when it is past its usefulness, our good peasants will stick to their horses...
...beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke, who had urged it to "stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson? A man serving special interests...
...newsboy of itself will give an all-rounded education, adequate either for success in vocational life or other activity," said Professor J. M. Brewer, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in answer to a statement made by Roger W. Babson, industrial statistician...
When Roger W. Babson, famed statistician, last month told the Market it was riding to a fall, and then the Market quickly rallied from the depression caused by his statement, Mr. Babson was flayed by all the financial writers in New York whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident...
About 5,000 people in the U. S. claim to be 100 or older. Most of them unintentionally exaggerate, said Louis Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statistician who hastened from the National Safety Council meeting at Chicago last week to the American Public Health Association Convention at Minneapolis. To the health officers he named 80 as the maximum age to which most people could aspire. Medical, public health and sanitary work the past half century has increased the average life of the whole population by 20 years, but has not been able to prevent senility and the deterioration...