Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first offering of the Film Society will be a series of programs entitled "A Survey of the Film in America 1895-1932." This particular series deals with the rise of American film from its crude beginning through the early Pickford era and the famous classics of Griffith down to the first Walf Disney and the coming of sound. The first part of the program will be given on Thursday, January 28, to be followed by showings of the rest of the series on February 9 and 25, and March 9 and 25. The films will be presented at the Institute...
...harmful situation and tend to hurt rather than help the best interests of the University. This is not the case nor has it been the case in the immediate past. However, it is what the tutoring schools may become in the future that warrants a comprehensive investigation and survey...
That gum consumption jumps tremendously during examinations, that chewers are habitual addicts, and that the quantity of gum consumed by students far exceeds the popular conception are the conclusions drawn from a recent survey of gum-chewing conditions in the College...
...broader question of SEC's grant of power, Attorney Jackson went into detail on the evils of holding company pyramids discovered in the Federal Trade Commission's survey of 2,300 utilities, on which the Utility Act was based. Conceding that Electric Bond & Share was not necessarily guilty of these evils, he observed that the Bond & Share texture was similar to those in which corporate bubbles had been known to form. He trotted out charts to show that 48% of the gas and 28% of the electricity distributed by Bond & Share's multitudinous subsidiaries were conducted across...
...money is for a presidential whim or not. The canal, indeed, is not even partially self-liquidating, for no tolls will be charged. It is a very notable fact even the ship-owners--the supposed beneficiaries--register a complete lack of enthusiasm for the project. Objections by the Geological Survey, raised in connection with the canal's probable effect upon the water table which makes Southern Florida a fruit-growing paradise, are suddenly and without adequate explanation ruled out of order...