Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working towards a projected survey on the "Whole Man" at Harvard, the Student Council last night considered a report on the role of extra-curricular activities at the University...
...college might make a woman unfit for matrimony seem to be thoroughly dispelled by the facts." As our Georgia reader suspected, however, college women lag far behind the rest of their sex in the matter of getting married. Only 69 out of 100 were married when TIME made its survey, compared with 87 out of 100 for all women in the U.S. But, once married, the college woman usually stays married. Nine out of ten who were ever^married are still living with their husbands, compared with eight out of ten for all U.S. women. The authors explore a number...
...After a survey of 207 state-operated mental hospitals, the U.S. Public Health Service estimated that one out of every 330 Americans (about 500,000) was under state treatment for mental illness in 1949. The hospitals were so overcrowded that there were only 100 beds for every 118 patients, one doctor for every...
...began with a Danish survey map made in 1938. His mathematical predictions agree with measurements made by French Explorer Paul-Emile Victor as recently as 1950. Victor's party, however, had to make a 700-mile trek across southern Greenland. Every ten miles they measured ice thickness by detonating a charge of dynamite and timing the echo as it bounced from the rock floor far below. Admittedly more accurate, Victor's seismic soundings were time-consuming and limited. As check-points for Nye's formulas, they take on new importance...
...second category in the non-fiction group is what one may call sociological studies. These attempt a broad, objective survey of some particular field. One example of such work is "Traders in Women: A Comprehensive Survey--of White Slavery," a sensational expose of white slavery practices from Bombay to Brooklyn...