Word: vergil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite this year's increase, Dr. Hauser and Acting Census Director Vergil Daniel Reed were gloomy about the future. Declared Dr. Reed: "The momentum of our population growth may carry us forward to 150,000,000 or more in the next two generations-about 1980-but, unless factors change, growth will stop and a slow recession probably...
Miss Ruutz-Rees put her girls through a rigorous classical curriculum, teaching them Vergil herself. She horrified parents, who feared their daughters might develop "unsightly muscles," by introducing athletics. First Rosemary sport was cricket, but Rosemarians could find no worthy opponents, took up basketball, track and field hockey instead. Now they play Yale freshman teams at hockey, once beat them...
...Conference's discussion was war: how to keep rising prices from skyrocketing, whether national defense would increase or diminish the supply of consumer goods. The most significant address had little concern with the war. It was a "preview" of 1940's census results (TIME, Sept. 30) by Vergil D. Reed, assistant director and bright idea man of the Census Bureau. He i) smartly summed up the effect of population shifts on distribution, 2) described the trends in retail sales (mostly up), 3) brought out facts from the first complete nose count of U. S. time-sales companies. Sample...
...Census, Director Austin and his bright idea-man Vergil Reed claim these improvements...