Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour and a half beginning canvass during the evening meal yesterday, over 250 undergraduates joined the American Independence League, pledged to "unify American youth in its determination to keep out of the European...
...hoped that mistakes of the 1937 census, which was never published because it was "sabotaged" by "Trotskyist-Bukharinist traitors," will not be repeated. Then some 1,000,000 census-takers set out to make a house-to-house canvass Many thought that the figures turned up then showed: 1) a decrease in population; 2) too many Russians to be religiously minded for Soviet comfort. No question regarding religious belief or disbelief will be asked in the present census, nor will Soviet citizens again be allowed to list themselves as prostitutes, lackeys or tramps. Soviet citizens will be occupationally grouped under...
...Will Canvass Alumni...
...limit their scope to the portrayal of but one shadow, some become hopelessly embroiled in combinations too great for their artistry, but once in a great while a dramatist avoids the overemphasis of one hue to the exclusion of all others and sometimes he avoids the dilemma of a canvass splattered with all hues. When he has done this he has created a clay in which the pertinent colors are mixed with such subtlety and craftsmanship that a mere kaleidoscopic pattern takes form and breathes and becomes a living picture--a picture of Life...
...involved in an unnecessary misunderstanding. During the discussion of promotions last year the Department of Economics was never informed as to the full, meaning of the President's ruling. The Dean did not point out to the President the Department's conception of the ruling, and he failed to canvass the opinions of qualified persons outside the Department as to the merits of the candidates for promotion. At best, the Dean was a poor mediator between the Department and Mr. Conant, who himself made no attempt to enlighten the matter through clarification...