Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Freshman class are only 15 years old and three are over 23 among a group of 950 Yardlings who arrived at Harvard for the first time last September, a survey shows...
...brick rows are more typical. The section chosen for the experiment comprises about 1,600 homes in 50 blocks, is bounded on one side by swank Guilford, on the other by Baltimore's Municipal Stadium. In cooperation with the Baltimore Housing Authority, HOLC will make a survey to find out "what is necessary to fortify and secure residential values . . . and provide a pattern which can be applied to communities throughout the country." Cost of the survey will be $25,000, of which WPA has been asked to put up $14,152 in wages...
...survey will involve appraisals of every house as to present value and cost of needed repairs. HOLC figures that financing such repairs would make its mortgages more secure, give mortgage companies more scope for investment, reward the city with sounder tax values, besides assisting the building industry, raising the local standard of living. Boasts HOLC's Maryland Director Herbert L. Grymes of his reconditioning division: "For every dollar we have spent in improvements, the properties have gained $2.44. . . ." Last week the U. S. Government also did the following for and to U. S. Business...
Promptly Bride Pons Benedict Kostel-anelz flew lo South America. She made a six-week concert tour, he surveyed South American radio. Last week, Andre Kostel-anelz gave CBS his report on the honeymoon survey, incidentally upsetting popular ideas of the nature of Latin American radio listening...
...Government 1 syllabus. Completely overshadowing its dull-brown History 1 prototype, this flashy volume is tangible evidence of extensive reorganization in one of Harvard's most important courses. There were no recalcitrant conservatives or betrayers of democracy to block this measure of government reorganization, for the department's survey course has, in the past, been a black sheep of the social sciences. Popularly criticized by undergraduates, it has been found wanting generally in organization and integration, in cooperation between lecturer, reading matter, and section men. Favorite plaint was its inflation of Harvard Square bookseller's stocks at the expense...