Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once, and for many years, a valiant insect fighter. Back in 1908, Hyslop en listed in the bug-fighting army of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He poisoned grasshoppers, battled boll weevils, spied out numberless insects with a view to their undoing. Finally, as boss of the Insect Pest Survey and Information, he and his minions slew bugs by the billions. But as he got to know the enemy, a change came over Hyslop : he began to see things from the insect's point of view...
...result of this survey of other universities, the committee pointed out that M.I.T., Pennsylvania, and Princeton "charge substantially less" than Harvard, that only M.I.T. collects the special fees, and that the Penn fee includes specialist service...
What is called for is (one hesitates to use the word) a poll. If a survey shows that none of last year's Freshmen like a Red Book, it shall have to be scrapped. If all of them want it, it shall have to be kept. But if an indecisive result leaves the verdict to the Council, then that body shall have to be kept. But if an indecisive result leaves the verdict the Council, then that body shall have to judge for itself...
Second-hand texts have been the order of the day during the first week of courses, a survey of local book stores indicated yesterday. The shift from now to used books was attributed unanimously by booksellers on the Square to the drop in the number of veterans' book authorizations issued at registration...
...alive-not even Stalin-knew the answer. No one had a grip on all the main factors in the equation. Some men, however, knew much more than others; and some answers were much better than others. Last week a survey of the best sources of information in the non-Communist world yielded some hard facts, some pertinent speculation and some cautious conclusions about the chances...