Word: survey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of the survey, the statisticians had a recommendation: more students ought to be getting set for the workaday world of the trades or should be prepared for a start as clerks and office workers...
Matter of Record. In St. Louis, the Governmental Research Institute announced the results of a survey in the city's magistrate courts: two stenographers didn't know shorthand, another couldn't type...
...atomic plants now abuilding will be safeguarded carefully. The pile at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, 65 miles east of Manhattan, will operate only when there is enough wind to dilute its radioactive cooling gases below the danger point. Elaborate studies are being made by the U.S. Geological Survey to make sure that no radioactive wastes get into Long Island's water supply. The "hot" uranium slugs from Brookhaven's pile will be put underground to keep them from making trouble...
...Jordan River Valley in Palestine, where the desert could be made to bloom, might be a good example. A survey would be made, a plan outlined, and then industry, agriculture and labor would be put to work to bring the plan about...
...find out what actually happens in marriages between people of different faiths, Sociology Professor Murray H. Leiffer of the Methodist Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Ill. conducted a survey in a "middleclass, densely occupied community in a large American city." His findings, published in the Christian Century, make a more detailed warning to young lovers...