Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palme Dutt has done very much more than merely to attempt to prove his case by demonstrating the folly of others. He has pointed out in the course of his historical survey the failure of capitalism to live up to its own early standards and promises: liberalism, free trade, world organization, peace, and prosperity, to name a few which it has betrayed. Although the world appears to be making a gradual turn around Mr. Hoover's favorite corner toward better times, there is vast wreckage just behind us and still with us are millions of un-employed, to leave aside...
Warden King, a onetime insurance salesman who works part time for the Biological Survey at $3.50 per day, proceeded to expound the law. Caught flagrante delicto, flustered Mr. Justice Van Devanter cried: "Indeed, I'm sorry. I assure you that I'm heartily in favor of anything that will help conserve ducks, and I'll stop at the post office on my way back and buy the stamp...
...weird," weird, too, must be our leading manufacturers, the laboratories of our great industries, the research staffs of our universities, the various institutions and foundations endowed for the advancement of science, our Patent Office, the U. S. Bureau of Standards, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the other divisions of our Government that are engaged in scientific or engineering work, for they are the principal sources to which we look for material, both text and pictures...
...National Academy of Sciences Dr. Hubble communicated the results of his most recent survey of the distant nebulae. The distribution of these bodies in space forced him to conclude that a non-expanding universe theory "is more economical and less vulnerable." If the red-shifts do not really indicate velocity, he wrote, one has a "rather simple and thoroughly consistent picture of a universe in which . . . the large-scale distribution of nebulae is uniform throughout the sample available for inspection." On the other hand, to assume that the shifts really indicate receding velocity forces one to adopt a very curious...
...have formed the society are bringing moving picture films to Cambridge that until recently had been stored in musty vaults, where disintegration and decay were rapidly destroying many of the first and finest bits of film history. By bringing these films to Harvard they are presenting an interesting survey of the development of motion pictures in America, and at the same time are contributing to the upkeep of the old favorites of the early nineteen hundreds...