Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years later, Levin had completed James Joyce, a book which served as the inspiration for New Directions' "Makers of Modern Literature" series, and which most scholars consider the best critical survey of Joyce's work as a whole yet written. He was then an Instructor in English, aged twenty-nine...
...three housing projects for graduate students: Shaler Lane, Gibson Terrace, and Holden Green. Together, these developments have 173 units--scarcely enough for today's large number of married students. Yet even this small number of units is not restricted to students connected with Harvard. A survey taken last year showed that at least 30 suites were occupied by people who once had been students here but were no longer tied to the University in any way. When rent controls end in December, the Trust, composed of the University and alumni, should act quickly to terminate the remaining leases...
...current quarterly report, the Carnegie Corp. of New York gave a preview of a survey made by four Cornell sociologists of 7,000 students at twelve colleges and universities. Of those questioned, eight out of ten said that they feel a need for a religious faith. Only 1% described themselves as atheists. Though the tendency, said the report, is not toward any particular creed, today's students seem fairly well agreed that there must be some religious system "based on God as the Supreme Being." Other signs of a new interest in religion on U.S. campuses...
Geologist Lee Merriam Talbot, 25 is an animal man by heritage: his grandfather, C. Hart Merriam, was the first chief of the U.S. Biological Survey. So when the Survival Service of the International Union for the Protection of Nature, formed under UNESCO sponsorship, offered him a job, Talbot snapped...
...resents ecologists, as it does everything else, so Talbot made his survey from the back of a tall bull elephant. Once he came face to face with a mother rhino as she bathed her child in a mud wallow...