Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pens for registering voters had threatened to delay the balloting. Authorities beat the illiteracy problem by printing a different colored ticket for each of the 15 competing parties. The voter thus had merely to select his favorite color from the fistful of slips handed him, and seal the card in an envelope as he stood in the secret polling booth...
...Adams House, for instance," said John H. Finley, Jr., associate professor of Greek and Latin and Eliot House master, "has four entries. They must therefore use a card system for feminine guests, since the check-in-and-out book method, in use at such single-entry Houses as Lowell and Eliot, is impractical...
...Card for Each Seat...
...success of this venture depends upon the number of people we can persuade to stay in their seats during the intermission," said Spear, calling for co-operation in performing not only a difficult feat, but also one of the few flash-card demonstrations on the East coast. "Little physical exertion and moderate discretion are all that are required for the desired effect," Spear concluded...
...like a woman on trial for her life. She yawned, drew sketches. In her cell between sessions she burbled delightedly: "I get salmon salads . . . everything I like." She asked for magazines: "You know, love stories. ... Lots of them." She got fan mail, a dozen carnations, a card reading: "Happy Returns...