Word: 22nd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey of faculty opinion last night showed local professors a little sorry but generally unconcerned over the ratification yesterday of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which provides that no man may be President of the United States longer than ten years...
Letters have been coming to her from friends and complete strangers, coast to coast: "Please don't overdo before the 22nd"-the date of her return this week in her most famous role, Isolde, in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. "Please take care of yourself so you will be in good voice," wrote another. "We have waited so long, and you must not let us down...
...opponents. Illinois had "saddlebag" and "beltline" districts; Mississippi had a "shoestring" district, 40 miles wide and 600 miles long; and Massachusetts still has a scrawny, lizard-shaped district, resembling the original gerrymander, laid out in 1812 to preserve the political power of Governor Elbridge Gerry. In Ohio's 22nd District, Representative Frances P. Bolton served 698,650 constituents, but in the 10th District, Representative Thomas A. Jenkins spoke for only 180,482 people...
...Norman, Okla., the University of Oklahoma over Boston College, 28-0, for its 22nd straight victory...
...persistent will get the hang of it. Spaceman's hero may live in the 22nd Century, serve as third mate on a 200,000-m.p.h. Earth-to-Venus spaceship, and burble endlessly about ray guns and spaceports, but Lancelot himself is an old standby. Adorned with an "oversized Adam's apple, ears like a loving cup's handles, and a grin like a Saint Bernard puppy," Lancelot is that time-tested hero, the gangling young whippersnapper who loves to tinker-and more often than not tinkers his way to a fabulous discovery. With the greatest of ease...