Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mere boondoggling in New Jersey's waistlands was this latest WPA project. Hope of the sponsors was that this gynemetric survey would result in making everybody happier, some people better dressed...
...great big, graceful, healthy girl," Miss Eunice Allman, who explained that her work consists in "soothing bruised egos," begged, "If you're writing about us, don't make us out to be the scum of the earth. We're not so bad." In general the press survey went far toward confirming Sir John Anderson's evident feeling that there can be nothing very awful about even such ostentatiously "lowlife" dives as the Nut Club in Greek Street so long as its regular patrons continue to include such people as Mrs. Anthony Eden...
...note: According to a recent survey, the reproductive rate of Princeton men is declining...
...will have nothing but facts--and at the most, trite formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae will be enough, but then they very likely will not be. Then again, they may very possibly tear down his grade, since the staffs of survey courses have ruled to penalize "canned information" on examinations...
...self-perpetuating education"--which, translated, means inspired to go on, informally, and learn on their own initiative--that President Conant conceived of the American Civilization Plan. On another front, the University of Chicago is attacking the problem by exposing susceptible freshmen to the grand sweep of Knowledge--through mammoth survey courses such as Civilization I. Educators, or the best of them, know of the disease, and are attacking it; but quietly, perhaps unconsciously, students are themselves making the greatest inroads. They are doing so through increased participation in extracurricular activities...