Word: statisticized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
> In 157,629 traffic cases heard by magistrates last year, the conviction rate was only 6.9%-a statistic lending support to one magistrate's story that his colleagues regard traffic cases as a lucrative business. The story also goes that Philadelphia's constables (who enforce court orders) pay...
And this statistic, of course, is why Washington had to wait so long for home rule in the first place. A white cab driver expressed the feelings of many this summer when he said, "I can't see out Nation's capital being controlled by colored people." This opinion explains...
Nobody ever accused Milwaukee Manager Bobby Bragan of lacking imagination. At one time or another, to protest an umpire's call, he has 1) fainted on the field, 2) staged a sitdown strike in the middle of the diamond, and 3) announced, then called back seven successive pinch hitters...
The U.S. last week saw some of the most welcome statistics in many months: unemployment sank to an eight-year low of 4.5% in July and employment set a new record of nearly 75 million. With the number of jobless at the lowest level since booming October 1957, the most...
Then, last fall, the man who had flown 159 missions in World War II and Korea and filled in as a test pilot in between discovered the truth of the statistic that most accidents happen in the home. While he was hanging up a mirror in his bathroom, a throwrug...