Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 900 of the Class of 1941 have now under gone their compulsory examination together with the fall sports teams. Coincident with and following the upperclass period, there will start the customaray survey of the winter sport personnel...
...manager of Fink-Roselieve Co., a Manhattan concern which sells dentists solutions for developing their little X-ray films, was summarily out of a job. Reason: an intentionally humorous illustrated advertisement which dentists did not think a bit funny when they saw it in last month's Dental Survey and Oral Hygiene. The illustration: a middle-aged dentist holding his pretty office assistant on his lap. The caption: "Look what you can do with the time you save with F-R solutions...
...film library of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Cinemarchivists John E. Abbott and Iris Barry (his wife). For rental of their films, the museum charged $125 for 5 series of programs, $40 for a single program. Two of the four series available: A Short Survey of the Film in America, 1895-1932; The Film in Germany and the Film in France...
Steamer, railroad, and motor car will carry the party to the town of Mandalay in Northern Burma, which will serve as a base of field operations. Here, with the cooperation of the Burma Division of the Geological Survey of India, the expedition will search the gravels along the banks of the Irrawaddi River for fossils of prehistoric man and animals. Stone Age tools have already been uncovered in this region...
Final scenes of field work will be at the Phillippines, where a survey will be made of the coastal plain near Manila reported to be rich with fossils, perhaps those of the same animals which were recovered with a Java and Pekin Man. If true, such a find would be most valuable in the study of animal migrations form southeastern Asia toward the new World...