Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened fire, and the Israelis shot back. One Israeli, one Syrian, and one Egyptian officer of the new United Arab Republic army were killed before Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn (the U.N.'s new Palestine truce chief) arranged a cease-fire and an impartial U.N. land survey. Fearing that Egypt's Nasser might feel moved to a bombastic defense of his new Syrian subdivision, the U.S. State Department put pressure on Israel to accept. Last week, after U.N. surveyors found that the Israelis were indeed digging into the demilitarized zone, the Israeli diggers duly shifted...
More important, in trying to improve the accuracy of the sampling, the Census Bureau in the past 15 years has increased the number of families interviewed from 25,000 to 35,000 and the number of areas surveyed from 68 to 330. When it expanded from 68 to 230 areas in 1954, the bureau ran two surveys, one in the smaller number of areas and one in the bigger. To its surprise, it found a huge increase of 700,000 in the computations of jobless totals for the U.S. based on the larger survey. Since then, the number of areas...
...faculty passes it, "the chief effect will be to push us in the direction in which we have been going already." Last year the department started sophomore tutorial and tutorial for credit, "and we plan to continue these again next fall." The Chicago Tribune in the recent survey of Harvard implied that the department was not outstanding in all aspects...
...survey by the CRIMSON yesterday morning revealed that almost all students with cars had complied with the new ruling. Of more than 420 cars parked in the restricted area after 2 a.m., only 108 displayed a Harvard registration sticker, and more than half of these were parked on the fringes of the area...
...biology, chemistry and physiology can easily be envisioned, and they would serve a purpose beyond their theoretical value. They would enable the Committee on General Education to obtain the services of some of the great scientific experts on the Faculty who are not sufficiently interested to teach a survey course but who might be extremely interested in presenting their particular specialty to the non-scientist...