Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born to Poll. The methods which George Gallup uses are as old as those used by grain samplers, cotton testers or tea tasters. Gallup's contribution has been to apply those methods commercially to everything and anything in the world. A friend has said of him: "He wishes he had invented the ruler. Since someone beat him to it, Gallup has spent his life thinking up new ways to use it." It is almost true to say that George Gallup was born to be a pollster...
...factories to the Western zones. All but the Communists guffaw. But Bruno perorates bravely: "We must defend the workers of Berlin whose factories and jobs are being stolen from them." In the bored silence that follows, the frantic handclapping of a single S.E.D. delegate echoes hollowly. It is nearly tea time and the British observers leave their bench. The Russian's attention wanders and he files his nails with an air of unbearable boredom...
...home is in Oxford, but in term she lives at Girton College, Cambridge. Her day begins when a gyp (servant) brings a cup of tea at 6 a.m. Three times a week Dr. Cam cycles to a lecture hall, her steel-grey hair and black academic gown billowing in the breeze. She has been to the U.S. only once, to teach at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr, and that was 39 years ago. Most of her days are spent in tutoring, writing, helping edit the Cambridge Historical Journal, keeping the university archives, and campaigning energetically for the Labor Party. Social...
Prince and President shook hands. They stood at attention outside the White House door while a Navy band played the Belgian anthem and The Star-Spangled Banner. Then they went inside for a formal tea. Later, there was a white-tie stag dinner.* The party broke up early...
...with the U.S. Ambassador, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. She went to Covent Garden (in a black lace dress) to hear La Traviata, and got a thundering ovation as she entered the royal box. She visited the House of Lords, was entertained by the Lord Chancellor, had tea with the Prime Minister. Once as she was entering a London hotel all the men in the crowd outside respectfully took off their hats...