Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alumni profess an interest in President Conant's physical well-being. They knew that when he worked in the laboratory he didn't bother much about exercise, but they feel that as President he should indulge in a daily constitutional. The spaniels would make him go walking, and incidentally survey the beauties of Harvard Yard...
...recently announced. This laboratory, in which 3,100 people were measured and interrogated, gave without doubt the best anthropological cross-section of the American people that has ever been made, and the doubling of the number of subjects this summer will quintuple the value and definitiveness of the survey...
...subjects, the average male was 29 years of age, weighed 153 pounds, and was 68 inches tall, while the females averaged 31 years, 138 pounds, and 63.6 inches. Both men and women averaged shorter than college students of their sex, but the older women measured in the survey were 16.5 pounds lighter than the average American College girl...
...same day the new council took office he appointed one Lewis Silkin to chairman the Housing Committee. Housing Chairman Silkin promptly an nounced that the ?35,000,000 ($175,000,000) slum clearance scheme of the old Conservative County Council would be scrapped as "entirely inadequate." An immediate new survey will cover not only houses legally unfit for habitation, but also basement flats where now live some 100.000 souls. Only six out of every 100 U. S. inhabitants live in New York City, but one tenth of all Britons are Londoners. The new Labor Government in London had instant repercussions...
...during which he had won nation-wide fame as the Des Moines Register's syndicated cartoonist, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling was going to live in Washington. Week before another onetime Des Moines citizen, Secretary Wallace, had called him to head the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey. Manhattan publishers who have made him. many a fancy offer to go East raised their eyebrows at "Ding's" new salary- $8,000 per year, minus a 15% economy cut. They knew that meant a genuine sacrifice for one of the best-paid cartoonists in the land. "Ding...