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Word: casts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although 1803 ballots have been cast since January 5, no mayor has been selected in the 34 voting sessions. Interspersed between each ballot, the council-men have slipped eggs in each other's pockets, joked loudly, and even refused to swing the tide by voting for themselves. Hundreds of Cambridge citizens have come to the sessions, and have laughed, jeered, and insulted the actors on the councilroom stage. "Ridiculous," they ruefully admit between sips of lemonade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appointed Mayor May Halt City's Election Comedy | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

...just been completed, and the whole affair will be conducted like a national convention. Keynote speeches will precede the nominating addresses. After these, the actual roll-call will be taken, and nominations considered on the split delegation basis through which every candidate gets the exact number of personal votes cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Republicans Plan Mock Convention In Memorial Hall | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

More that 900 Radcliffe voters will go to the polls again during the next week to cast fresh and final ballots on Student Government's three big issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

Boston's Little Theater, the Tributary, has opened its annual Shakespearean Festival with a presentation of "Othello" that is regrettably poor by all critical standards. To cast such an obviously aged man as Edward Finnegan in the role of the powerful and Jealous Moor is the grossest error in the production and one that grows increasingly ludicrous, despite the determined effort of both the friendly audience and Mr. Finnegan to rise above his handicap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

...When little more than half the student body had voted over a period of two weeks, the joint executive board of the new and old Councils (numbering 20-odd Student Government officers) decided, in the cause of expediency, to count a simple majority of the votes cast sufficient to pass or reject the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Council Asks For Activities Revote | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

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