Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 31,275,348 major party ballots tabulated by Associated Press, 19,334,959 or 61.83% were for Roosevelt. This proved that the most accurate of all pre-election straw polls was the survey conducted by FORTUNE. In its October issue, FORTUNE indicated that Roosevelt would have 61.73% of the popular vote...
Overanxiety for children, apart from actual physical impediments to childbirth, is a great cause of childlessness, declared Director Henry Farnham Perkins of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont. In the Eugenical News he cited this evidence: "The relation of the endocrine secretions to the reproductive functions is beginning to be understood by biochemists and physiologists. It is known that a very delicate acid-base equilibrium is essential for conception. This equilibrium is very easily upset, and nothing seems to affect it more quickly and decisively than psychological disturbances. . . . The thyroid gland is especially prompt in its reaction to psychological stimuli...
...Washington last week, rotund Ira N. Gabrielson, who was appointed chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey last year by Mr. Chrysler's good friend Franklin Roosevelt, commented: "All citizens are equal under the Law and our men are instructed to arrest all law violators regardless of their identity...
...College Catalogue is generally conceded to have been guilty of understatement in regard to the number of hours needed for weekly laboratory assignments, as the Council Committee's survey bore out fairly conclusively. No conceivable objection can be raised against increasing these inaccurate estimates by the necessary amounts. A man should not have to be tricked into taking any laboratory course by the supposition that it is only a part-time job. He is too likely to be led toward a severance of University connections at a much earlier date than he had hoped or inteded...
That an overwhelming majority of U. S. daily newspapers outside the South are pro-Landon is undisputed. Nearest approach to an exact count was a survey by Betty Millard published in the New Masses last week. Having examined the "admitted or effective editorial attitude" of every U. S. newspaper, including the South's, with a circulation of 50,000 or over, she found that those for Landon had a combined circulation of 14,347,000, those for Roosevelt had 6,996,000, those neutral...