Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicken Survey." Michael Weintraub, a onetime cloak & suit man, was not happy about his relief job. That job was to go from door to door, ask each New York housewife her origin, nationality, family income, number in family, number of children, number of servants, number of boarders; whether she had bought any poultry in the past seven days; if so, what day, what kind of fowl, what weight, what cost per Ib.; was it slaughtered in New York; was it plucked? He was also supposed to gather data on eggs, but Michael Weintraub said sadly that the door was usually...
...accept your resignation with very real regret. For nearly two years you have discharged your important duties with distinction and success. A survey of your record and that of your office, taking into account the business transacted, the multiplicity of matters intrusted to your care, and the results achieved, will challenge comparison with any like period of time in the history of your department...
...Miami, Igor Ivan Sikorsky's S-42, after months of training flights, was being tuned for survey hops over the Pacific...
...arts are represented, and by specimens which tend to be a persuasive, even if mute, testimony in an age of rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against...
...ever before in their lives. Of course for the moment, with only a fortnight before vacation and with only the comparatively cramped quarters of the Cage as a base of operations, Harlow probably won't start any radical innovations but will devote most of his time to a preliminary survey of material...