Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct line of rebel fire. Bullets sang overhead, pished into the haystack, and swished through the corn. It was impossible to move. Then I thought of TIME. For six hours, with an occasional break to survey fighting, fix my glasses on a bombing plane, or consult the French radio operator established behind the nearby farmhouse, I absorbed the Aug. 24 issue, including all ads (actual cover-to-cover reading time about three hours). Just as I was reading Medicine an airplane bomb landed in the corn...
...Football Supervisor Herb Dana will explain the new rules, coaches their new plays. The Southwest Conference takes in a minimum of $14,000 a season and $500 for each game broadcast from Humble Oil & Refining Co. In Lincoln, the Nebraska State Journal last week published the results of a survey which showed that of 72 major colleges, mostly state-controlled. 37 broadcast their games, 35 do not. Of the 37 colleges, 24 sell radio rights...
...celebrate that milestone. Summoned to the two-week Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts & Sciences were 2,500-odd savants, among whom 72 first-magnitude luminaries were to read papers. On hand were no less than 1 1 Nobel Prize-winners.* Purpose of this great galaxy of learning was to survey the present state of the physical, biological and social sciences and their impact on man. The 72 discourses were to be recorded on 150 phonograph records, filed away in the Harvard archives...
When slight, sandy-haired Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis read that confession from a classmate in the 25-year report of his Harvard Class of 1911. his curiosity was aroused. Sportswriter Tunis, who is not only a prime authority on tennis but the author of many a thoughtful magazine survey of U. S. education, inspected 540 more such intimate autobiographies. Likewise stirred was his Classmate Laurence Leathe Winship, scholarly Sunday editor of the Boston Globe, who on John Tunis' suggestion sent the Class of 1911 a supplementary questionnaire. From these sources and from his own wide acquaintance in Manhattan...
Quick were many Harvardmen to insist that whatever Author Tunis' survey might show, it was true only of the Class of 1911, which many ungraciously suggested was a dud. Harvard's Class of 1910, for instance, fathered a celebrated motley including Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish...