Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Results of a survey by the United Press to determine the world's richest man were published. First on the list was this name: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah Muzaf-far-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mamalik Nizam-ul-Mulk Nizam-ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Usman Ali Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung, 44, the Nizam of Hyderabad in India (TIME, Nov. 24). His wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next...
...open only to fairly mature undergraduates who can think abstractly and come up to the level of philosophy and not demand that the presentation be brought down to the level of their development. A second course would present the student who has no interest in philosophy with a survey of the problems with which philosophy deals, and familiarize him with the philosophic approach. This course would be Philosophy B sharply defined in purpose and extended in treatment...
...appointed its five new members. Until Congress at its last session reorganized it on a full-time basis, this Commission was composed of the Secretaries of War, Interior, Agriculture. Selected as chairman was big, wavy-haired George Otis Smith, since 1907 director of the Interior Department's Geological Survey. Maine-born and Colby-graduated, Dr. Smith learned about water power from charting and gauging streams, selecting power sites, serving as technical adviser to the old Commission. His other activities have included a superpower survey of 1920 in the East, service on the U. S. Coal Commission (1922-23), advice...
ASCERTAINED AND MEASURES PLANNED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEM AND WITH THE EQUALLY IMPORTANT FACTS OF HUMAN NATURE. Chairman of the planning committee, Aldo Leopold of Madison, Wis., chief of the American Game Survey, submitted the new program. The committee had found that American farmers can do more toward increasing game than any other agency by making game a secondary farm crop. Six years of compensating game-wise farmers in Texas, for example, have increased good shooting preserves to 2,500,000 acres. They recommended that the farmer be protected from lawless hunters, be amply rewarded for his work.* Quail, pheasants...
...Philosophy of Evolution is a course which offers to the student a systemized survey of the more important theories of Evolution, historical and modern. It covers a wide scope of information, but the main points, how-ever far reaching are linked together in an interesting way by the instructor...