Word: beans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stands behind a restaurant counter and pushes a pie in a customer's face; in another she soberly walks across the stage in a straight line, carrying a pair of skis and is very funny just doing that; in another she serves as a bean-bag for a couple of South American caballeros...
...Louis Bean, who predicted President Truman's victory, in his book How to Predict Elections...
...lose him in a mass of interruptions by the young liberals, who didn't have any more ideas than I did, but being young liberals, felt inspired to express themselves. So it was a sort of delayed intellectual fulfillment to hear Hartz speak about the elections, along with Louis Bean, on Monday evening. He spoke from the lecture platform of Emerson D, and there was no kibitzing...
Known in Washington as the "statistical wizard," Bean wrote the book "How to Predict Elections" which was published prior to this year's campaign, and in which he predicted that a Democratic victory in 1948 was not improbable. Election records show that Bean has not been wrong by more than one percent in 12 years of predicting elections...
Basing his theories on election returns of the last 100 years, Bean concluded in his book that 1946 produced the lowest vote for the Democratic Party, and that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the GOP and the start of another Democratic...