Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...past month a group of six hardy astronomers has travelled the fifty miles to Oak Ridge and back every clear night. The thirty-odd eight by ten inch photographic plates which they take each night will not have been completely studied for a year or more, but some results of interest have already been found...
...advisory committee of the group will consist of 2 members from each of the Houses, and is headed by Paul Hoover...
This is not the only part of the Defense poll which is distinctly suspect. Very few of the actual questions asked are reprinted in the report, and this raises the serious consideration as to how prejudiced or unprejudiced the questions asked might be. The greatest difficulty encountered by any group with a definite thesis that tries to conduct an impartial poll, is that of asking non-leading questions. Mr. Gallup always, publishes the actual questions asked, to prove that they are unprejudiced. The editors of Defense could have strengthened their report considerably' by doing the same. Then, too, the general...
...letter, signed by all of the officers, counsellors, and committee chairmen of the group, advocates drastic action, "if this country is to equip itself adequately, and at the same time bring prompt and effective aid to those who are bearing the shock of aggression...
...letter was signed by over thirty prominent professors. Among these are Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy and chairman of the Group, James M. Landis, Dean of the Faculty of Law, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History...