Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the discussion, Carl Sloane '58, Council vice-president, said that the new system would result in the "Bullet Ballot," voting only for one person. He cited as evidence of such possible malfeasance examples of voter manipulation by ballot-box watchers he had seen in Dunster and Lowell Houses...
...circulation-and out of print-Sukarno's government has shut down his crusading paper three times in less than a year. From the day of Lubis' arrest, anti-Communist Indonesia Raya (circ. 40,000), the nation's leading independent daily, started carrying a Page One box each morning reminding readers of its editor's arbitrary imprisonment. Ordered last month to drop the box, Raya pointedly substituted three inches of white space, plus another big gap where it would normally have carried an editorial explaining the omission...
...merger proposal a dramatic attempt to get the railroads' case for higher rates and other changes before the public, but the move was nonetheless a good indication of the unhealthy state of the two roads involved. Many other U.S. railroads are doing well financially (see box), but they are not afflicted with the peculiar problems of the Central and Pennsy: short-haul runs that require numerous stations and facilities and heavy and unprofitable commuter loads in populous big-city areas...
...Competition is hell." This largest single fact in the grim little world of a shoeshine boy came from a youngster of eleven, a veteran of four years on the sidewalk. George sat glumly in front of Briggs and Briggs on an ancient, beaten kit box. "All the shoe stores grab everybody. Some Saturdays I ain't had anybody...
...Mass.) has prospered, increased advertising revenue 100% and doubled circulation (to 241,520) under Weeks and his editorial staff of 8. And its 268-page, 100th anniversary edition, typographically redesigned and filled with original contributions by some of the world's best-known writers (for one example, see box), is proof that the Atlantic is still, in its editor's words, "a living tradition...