Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poll Conducted by Pennsylvanian...
...tradition of Radcliffe indifference has been broken at last!" expostulates the Radcliffe "News" in its today's issue, as Marjorie Ramsey '40 relates the results of a Sophomore Questionnaire. The poll, asking the question, "Would you give up college for marriage?" concluded that Radcliffe is "the perfect barrier against...
...with circulation hovering at 600,000 Funk & Wagnalls hoped that another Presidential poll would prove a salutary shot in the arm. Instead, that poll mistakenly put Alfred M. Landon in the White House. Last June, the magazine having scraped bottom long enough, Funk & Wagnalls sold it to the Albert Shaws, father and son, for what was reported as a generous $200,000-only one percent of what the Literary Digest had been valued at in its prime. Merged with the Shaws' Review of Reviews as The Digest it did no better, was taken over four months later by Magazine...
...circulation a newspaper had on a certain day. They can learn readily how many U. S. citizens attended what movies in any particular week. But nobody can get the McCoy on book sales. The best-seller lists are no more reliable than the Literary Digest's notorious Presidential poll...
Most of the journalists are choosing economics for their field of study, a complication of the choices on the applications reveal. This result was predicted in a poll taken by a large New York newspaper of its staff members. Twenty-four of them chose economics; History; one, English literature; one, three, English composition; two, U. s. history; one, English Literature; one Spanish; one, zoology; one, mathematics; one, business management; one, ethics...