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Word: surveys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock: For the enthusiastic medievalist Professors Deknatel and Gaehde will survey art (Fine Arts 140), from the catacombs to Chartres in the Fogg Small Lecture Room. Professor Owen brings England from Peterloo to present lingering over the Victorian ripeness. His history 142b will be held in Longfellow Alumnae Room. Time editor Louis Kronenberger, also Soohie Tucker Professor at Brandeis, will discuss, in English 165, comic drama in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Catalogue for Spring | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...wear the pants in the family, but it is the women who choose them. So said Du Pont last week after a survey of 728 married couples. It reported that 85% of the women and 67% of the men thought it was the wife's responsibility to see that the husband was well dressed. Furthermore, the women knew more about the materials used in men's clothes -and 52% of the men admitted it. Wives, Du Pont noted, accompany their husbands on suit-buying expeditions about half the time, buy half the men's shirts without even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Woman's Domain | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Willey, director of the Maya program at the Peabody Museum since 1949, and Norweb also plan to spend some time on an archaeological survey in Nicaragua...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 4 Archaeologists Plan Exploration Of Ancient Mayan Civilizations | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Like the 21-in. image on the television tube, TV news commentary lacks depth. The big eye can survey, but it runs into trouble when it tries to interpret or explain. Last week, in an unsponsored effort to supply TV news coverage with the rare dimension, the Columbia Broadcasting System introduced a news program designed to examine more than the profile of big events: Behind the News with Howard K. Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble with Depth Vision | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Open Doubts. As a result, the commission managed to make plans that in the long run could make the Europeans' life in Africa a good deal simpler. It called for a conference of statisticians to make the first comprehensive survey of the needs of Africa as a whole. It made plans for a study of resources and power, for a board of experts to act as permanent economic advisers, for a training program for Africans, and for ways to attract capital, promote trade, and improve transportation on a continent-wide basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Try to Be Happy | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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