Word: statisticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ The statistician of the Long Island Railroad, Penn-owned commuters' road into New York City, revealed a curious statistic: the Long Island, 404 miles long, last year actually carried more passengers than did its 10,511-mile parent. The score was 118,888,128 for the Long Island to...
515 to 4. The next witness was Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, president of the International Christian Endeavor Society. His prime statistic: Representatives of 3,000,000 Christian Endeavor members had voted 515 to 4 in favor of Prohibition this year. He had, he said, polled 62 nameless college presidents, found...
Milk Drinkers. Speaking for a "million farmers," Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, fairly flooded the committee with agricultural statistics to establish the benefits U. S. husbandmen have received from Prohibition. His best statistic: before Prohibition every U.S. citizen drank 42 4/10 gal. of milk per year; today...
Vital, this statistic showed with finality that Soldier Primo de Rivera had failed to win the battle of Spanish post-War readjustment, though he did settle the Morocco question (by scotching Abd-El-Krim with the aid of France); did give Spain the longest period of internal peace under one...
This is a mistake. At first glance, one detects something wrong here. And the reason is that the "statistical proof" is carelessly (?) worded. Properly rendered, the statistic reads thus: ".... 57 per cent of the Radcliffe women who marry at all marry Harvard men."