Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wednesday, November sixth, entitled the "Grain and the Chaff", commenting on the recommendation of books by a committee acting for the Cooperative Society, you lament that the committee deals only with non-fiction and you suggest that other forms of literature might very profitably be included in their survey...
Alfred I. DuPont caused a survey to be made of Delaware's aged poor so that the legislature might be persuaded to pension them. Last year, after a similar survey, the legislators were apathetic, Mr. DuPont gave the money himself...
Dentists outnumber restaurants in Harvard Square, and lawyers are more numerous than laundries, it is revealed in a recent compilation of stores and offices in this vicinity. A survey of the 141 stores and 10 office buildings in the Square shows an infinite variety of businesses to attract trade...
Amid the turmoil and confusion of the Boston city elections today there is one referendum which has been unanimously indorsed by the survey committee of Boston public schools, in which President Lowell represents his honor, the mayor of Boston. The passage of this "Act to establish a board of Commissioners of school buildings and a department of school buildings in the City of Boston" has received strong support from educators in the vicinity, but the opponents of the referendum predict a close contest...
...anchor his first full-size seadrome midway between Manhattan and Bermuda. Studying hydrographic charts of the region he figured that there must exist a high spot on the ocean floor about where he would like it. He asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three...