Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed of Pennsylvania, particularly, did not want his distant cousin, Mr. Reed of Missouri, to open the ballot boxes which elected slush-tainted William S. Vare. The Pennsylvanian insisted that the regular Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, containing a majority of old-guard Republicans, was best fitted to count these ballots. The result was the Battle of the Cousins which displaced all other Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack of snarling, sleepless animals; which littered the chamber with apple cores, pitchers of ice water and ancient documents. The time-filling tactics of the filibusterers were crude. Instead...
Both the Yale Union and the Dartmouth Debaters on Circuit "will sound the death knell to formal and intercollegiate debating" according to simultaneous announcements from both Hanover and New Haven. Prophesies like that are notoriously easy to make and do not count for much in themselves. What is far more important at present than the relative merits of the two proposals, upon which no judgment can fairly be pronounced so early, is the incidental publicity which they will afford to collegiate debating. Space, headlines, discussion, all these are blessings which will give no negligible impetus to a languishing...
When the Gridiron sputtered, there came first a Latin-American revolution. A careful count revealed no casualties, the sole result being the inauguration of two men named Brown as the new Gridiron president. Ultimately it became clear that only one Brown, by name Ashmun Norris of the Providence Journal, was president. The other, Harry Jay Brown of the Salt Lake Tribune, was vice president...
...reeled in gold-buttoned blue dinner jackets. It was the Bullingdon Club, in high fettle after an annual dinner, its first in a new hall on the outskirts of town. Before the members reached their beds they had run up a score of 500 broken windows (by hasty count of righteous newsgatherers). Oxford proctors frowned ominously, and went into conference...
...records of past games give Yale a slight advantage in the contest between the two 1930 teams. The visiting team has lost two games, both by very close scores; it defeated Princeton by the count of 25 to 6. The Harvard Freshmen have improved greatly in the last three games, beating Brown by one point, but losing to Dartmouth at Hanover by a large score. According to Coach A.W. Samborski '25, they found their bearings in the latter game, and in losing were weldede into a unit, playing fast and coordinated basketball.CAPTAIN J.S. MALICK...