Word: casting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election of seven Juniors and three Sophomores to the Student Council for next year was announced last night by James De Normandie '29 who is in charge of the elections. In this year's elections only 644 ballots were cast by the members of the Sophomore and Junior Classes. This is considerably lower than the figures of last spring when 686 votes were received...
...Senator for the first time outside the Senate Chamber. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, had been ill with influenza and complications since before March 4. He lay in a hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana's Broussard, the undecided Senator, a Democrat. "Nose-Holding." Southern Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what...
...city commissioner of bridges he redesigned the Williamsburg Bridge and aided in the construction of the others. Meanwhile Railroader Rea, having found bridging the Hudson an insoluble financial problem, turned his attention to tunnels, and for him Consulting Engineer Lindenthal worked on the building of the 21-ft. cast iron tubes through which travelers from Pennsylvania Station today pass en route to the Jersey mainland. Later, still working with Mr. Rea, Builder Lindenthal came even closer to the realization of his ambition when he bridged Hell Gate, to the north, with a thousand-foot arch of steel...
...lightweight's race, scheduled for 5.30 o'clock, was not rowed until two hours later on account of a strong westerly wind which kicked up the water cast of Harvard bridge...
Madame X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the heroine, drunken, degraded, cast off by her husband and forbidden to see her son, screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences...