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Word: balloters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appear on the ballot, they must file a formal acceptance at the Council office in Phillips Brooks House by 5 p.m. next Friday. Elections are Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Nominates 19 For Council Posts | 4/21/1950 | See Source »

...appear on the ballot, they must file formal acceptance at the Council office in Phillips Brooks House by 5 p.m. Friday, April 28. The elections for House representatives will be on the day before. Men who are aso nominateld for House representative may thus run from the Class if they fail to win in their House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Committee Nominates Candidates for Student Council | 4/20/1950 | See Source »

...other sophomores who want to be on the ballot must file a petition with 25 names to the Council office by 5 p.m., April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Committee Nominates Candidates for Student Council | 4/20/1950 | See Source »

Tito's Yugoslavia has kept the rubber ballot-with one significant change. Formerly, soft rubber balls were used; since they made no sound, it was a true variation of the secret ballot. Now, hard rubber balls are used; though they drop noiselessly, rumor has spread among Yugoslavs that they fall with a distinct "plop!", and that anyone who does not choose the Titoist list proclaims himself as publicly as a medieval leper with a bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Rubber Ballot | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...dance (see cut). With him as he cast his own vote in Belgrade was Petar Stambolic, President of Serbia. Tito voted first, dipping his fist into both boxes, then holding up his open palm. But when Stambolic put his hand in the "no" box, he let go the rubber ballot. There was momentary horror, then laughter as Stambolic sputtered that he had made a mistake. "Petar," said Tito, "you are finished." But he said it with a grin, and waited with a grin while Stambolic, with official permission, fished out his vote and plopped it into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Rubber Ballot | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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