Word: survey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll will be drawn up by the Council's Student Welfare Committee in consultation with Social Relations department poll experts and with representatives of Bender and vice-President Reynolds. The survey may discard traditional "yes" and "no" methods and instead sample undergraduate sentiment by means of personal interviews...
Graduate Council action on the special fees endorsed the recommendations of the Student Committee on the Hygiene Department, a University-wide student group organized to conduct a survey of medical operations. The Committee conducted a year-long investigation before releasing its report...
...announcing the formation of the committee two weeks ago, Provost Buck said that the General Education report, which listed advising as one of the main educational problems yet to be solved, was directly responsible for the new survey...
...campaign tours, President Harry Truman humorously asked the voters to re-elect him because "then I won't be troubled with the housing problem." By last week it had become apparent that re-election wasn't going to solve the problem, even for Harry Truman. An engineering survey of the 150-year-old White House showed that it was little better than a fire trap, so weakened by age and by stresses set up as a result of haphazard patching and alteration that it could not be made safe without major repairs...
This sort of thing would not be surprising in the U.S., the editors thought. In fact, they said, according to a survey taken in Texas, most American girls were chiefly concerned with the "pecuniary aspects of their future marriages." But Komsomolskaya Pravda, which exists to point morals for young Communists and Russian youth in general, said that such things could not be tolerated in the Soviet Union...