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...about 514 destroyers and 414 destroyer-escorts had seen duty, and 82 of them had been sunk. No statistician will ever be able to calculate all they accomplished...
Hence by 1942 a physician, a psychiatrist, a statistician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a lawyer, and an economist had been added to the permanent staff. By then, the Center of Alcohol Studies had become a distinct unit of the Yale Laboratory of Applied Physiology...
Their basic idea of football is a game in which the Yale team scores many, many touchdowns. While they were very happy last year, it must be noted that currently they are a very downcast group right now. One doesn't have to be a paid New Haven statistician to know that Yale has scored one (1) touchdown in its last three games; one doesn't have to be an Ivy League football coach to know that Yale has won none (0) of its last three games...
Though Kinsey now lists all 14 members of the institute staff as co-authors of "the female volume," the key men around him are three: Psychologist Wardell B. Pomeroy, 39, and Statistician Clyde E. Martin, 35 (who were credited as co-authors of the male volume), and Anthropologist Paul H. Gebhard, 36. These three, along with Kinsey, are the only men who know the hieroglyphic code used for taking down case histories (on 8½ by 11 in. sheets). From the code-marked sheets, one of Kinsey's three chief lieutenants transfers the data...
...seven-day week (the club has been closed on only three occasions: V-E and V-J days and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's funeral). There is almost no guesswork at Harold's. The statistical department, headed by Guy Lent, 55, formerly a chief statistician for Cities Service Co. in New York, knows the odds on every angle of the business. From a quick count of the license plates outside, the Smiths can tell how they should be doing (Californians are the biggest spenders, New Englanders the smallest). When one game starts to lose favor with Harold...