Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week in Manhattan, the Army's No. 1 draftsman, studious, able Brigadier General Lewis Elaine Hershey, sat down with labor-union men at a conference sponsored by the left-wing National Lawyers Guild. Subject of discussion: "Labor's Rights and the Defense Program...
Professor Sorokin will travel to Chicago during the Christmas vacation to deliver one of the two main addresses before the General Session of the American Sociological Society. His subject is "The Challenge of the Times to the Sociologist...
...accuracy of the Gallup poll can be checked periodically by the results of elections. The poll conducted by Defense cannot be so easily confirmed and is therefore subject to attack. Any poll which did not cover every Harvard student would be challenged by somebody. It is to be doubted that the Crimson would accept any result which did not conform to its impression of the facts. If the Crimson is sincere, if you are not opposing just for the sake of opposition, there is an easy way to find out if our poll is accurate. That is to conduct...
...Also subject to well-warranted suspicion are the methods employed by Defense in compiling their statistics. The article refers to "a scientific sample of student opinion," but editors when questioned refused to reveal what these super-scientific methods might be. If the report as a whole had shown any startling devotion to truth, this hedging might perhaps be overlooked; but when it is coupled with other examples of distortion, it assumes greater importance. If this poll is any sort of a weapon, it is a boomerang. And if all those opposed to American intervention in the present war are "radicals...
...abstractions, the artificially simplified models, are merely the skeleton which the flesh of facts and complications is later to cover. In an elementary course in physics, for example, there are unreal hypothesis. Friction may be ignored, or no account may be taken of developments in quanta analysis. A subject has to start somewhere. It is better to start from the assumption that tractors can be converted into printing presses than from an involved discussion of the concepts of periods of production...