Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survey of the various companies offering cut-rate transportation facilities shows that there are approximately 350 men signed up to make the long trek, with prospects of many more before November...
...survey by some outstanding economist of the effect of Prohibition on Industry...
...received about 200 newsgatherers. "All that I put in a plea for is that disagreement never be aggravated by misunderstanding," he said. "Neither your President, I believe, nor myself-I can certainly talk for myself- have any idea of spending much time in discussing details. We should like to survey together the large and wide, the high and deep problems of international peace." The Conversations. Into the Blue Ridge Mountains next day to do that surveying repaired President and Prime Minister. The world press waited. Not only had it no "details" to report but it could not even...
...wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings by such superficially trivial things as a joke, a gesture in the night, an endearment as trite as "darling." And as they make their escape from Italy in a rowboat, survey the Alps from their hillside lodgings, move on to Lausanne where there are hospitals, gaze at each other in torment by the deathbed of Catharine, their tiny shapes on the vast landscape are expressive of the pity, beauty and doom of mankind...
...individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item, the establishment of a federal committee to assist ex-convicts in social re-adjustment, judging from the recent criminal survey of Dr. Glueck, is a really national necessity in this country. Whether these interesting elements will prove to be a substantial legal code is open to conjecture. At least it shows a serious effort on the part of a nation hitherto wavering in legal policies to come to grips with...