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Word: surveyals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provision in the War Department Appropriation bill (now being drafted) to equip for instant combat an "initial protective force" of 400,000 soldiers (Regular Army plus National Guard), the President himself took action. He ordered a new navy dirigible built (see p. 19). He announced he had ordered a survey of all Federal lands and plants capable of being used toward Rearmament. Mentioned specifically were a War-time armorplate plant in West Virginia and the old New Orleans Navy Yard. The latter might serve the newly-formed Atlantic Squadron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Chores & Plans | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...When we survey the course of religious development," Dean Matthews said," we cannot help being struck with he progress in religious concepts.... or the existence of the religious impulse. Is it plausible to say that the whole is a vast delusion, that there is nothing in this vast existence of truth and reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Belief in God" Needed in World, Says Matthews in Second of Lecture Series | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Brother Rat (Warner Bros.-First National). An ingratiating survey of undergraduate language, baseball games, parades, hazing, discipline, finance and love-making at Virginia Military Institute, adapted from the 1936 Broadway hit and played, with appropriate youthful flourishes (see cut), by Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Jane Bryan and Eddie Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...general consensus of opinion in an informal survey conducted yesterday was that after Scotch and Rum, wine-dealer the popular beverage. One wine-dealer growled, "What Harvard guys want, I haven't got: Wheeskey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men Like Scotch, Rum Best, Local Liquor Men State | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

Harvard students stand straighter, have better muscular co-ordination today than their predecessors in the period just after the war. Such is the conclusion reached by Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, in a survey of research and training programs, extending over a period of 20 years in University service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sudden Increase In Student Posture Ratings Result of Physical Training | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

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