Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only 2420 ballots were cast out of approximately 5400 possible undergraduate votes, but Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, chairman of the Constitution Reform Committee, was encouraged by the high proportion of affirmative replies: there were 2104 ayes to 294 nays, with 22 spoiled ballots...
...some places students studied carefully the digest of the provisions listed on the ballot, and in Dunster more than 30 men consulted the Constitution itself. Dunster was also high among the Houses in total ballots cast with a husky 274, which was surpassed only by the Union...
...Leverett House, however, a large group of men refused to cast a vote until they had gone to the library to check the provisions in copies of the constitution available there...
David Niven has chosen an admirable vehicle for his return to the American screen after a six-year absence, and he does full well by his opportunities as the flier on borrowed time. Kim Hunter, a newcomer, is equally well cast as the WAC. Her fresh and youthful appearance, unretouched by Max Factor, could serve as an object lesson in natural casting for American producers. Marins Goring, Roger Livesey, and Raymond Massey are other highlights of a cast entirely above reproach. Hollywood was well advised to exclude foreign productions from the Academy Award competition; if "Stairway to Heaven...
Farce--"a light dramatic composition of satirical or humorous cast," according to Webster. The Plymouth Theater's latest offering, soon to move on to Broadway, meets the letter of the definition, but it will never quite rank as a leading example of what can be a well-developed and highly amusing theater...