Word: takes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientific basis. In 1929 the University of Chicago dedicated a new building, financed mainly by the Rockefeller Foundation and designed to house Chicago's Division of Social Sciences. Last week social scientists from all over the U. S. assembled there to celebrate its tenth anniversary and take stock of their work. They did not pile up detailed reports of social research. They discussed techniques, viewpoints, "frames of reference," spheres of influence. They seemed to be asking themselves, "What are we?" and "What are we doing...
...extending (or, in sociological jargon, "extrapolating") into the future the trend line as charted up to the present. Last week Dr. Ogburn observed that trend analysis had enabled U. of C. investigators to estimate the probability of parole violations, of happy or unhappy marriages. Such predictions do not take account of individual exceptions, but-like the death rate statistics of insurance actuaries, who are also social scientists- hold good for large numbers of subjects...
...merits of compulsory health insurance or of the Wagner Health Bill. What united them was a desire for full, free discussion on the problem of medical care. The Progressives banded together merely to: 1) "introduce a liberal and inquiring attitude towards . . . social problems"; 2) "stimulate the society to take the lead in the movement to improve medical care of the people of this city...
Last week Hatfield Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun's column to other papers. A sportswriter before he became a columnist, Broun will also turn out stories on baseball and racing for the Post...
...usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...