Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee knew of only 167 U. S. profit-sharing plans, but after a summer of study, it now believes there are as many as 700. First profit-sharer to appear last week was President Richard R. Deupree of Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap). As he took the stand the survey's director set the tenor for the meeting by remarking: "This is not an inquisition, Mr. Deupree. We are glad to have you come to help...
...think tea is a sissy drink at all. It really depends on the drinker;" answered Nicholas Mellen '39, Varsity football guard, to a query on the Virtues and vices of tea-drinking. The questionnaire is part of a nation-wide survey of college athletes concerning the stimuli of various beverages...
Both men, members of the crew, had just finished a class under Bradford Washburn which deals with the surveying of mountains. In the absence of any Alps in Cambridge, they decided to penetrate into the attic of the Museum and survey the surrounding roof-tops...
Three years ago the Rockefeller General Education Board gave $500,000 for this study because New York illustrates the best and worst points in U. S. education, has big city systems and many rural schools. A Board of Regents survey committee, headed by Owen D. Young, picked tall, spectacled Luther Halsey Gulick to make the survey...
Fluent, forthright, well-informed, Major Eliot's ordinary conversation is a blend of profanity, military terminology and rolling oratorical flourishes. It brought him success as a lecturer; magazine contributions gave him a reputation; and in 1937 he collaborated with Major Richard Ernest Dupuy in writing // War Comes, a survey of potential war zones...