Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasons advanced for Candidate Thomas' failure to receive the 2,000,000 ballots indicated by The Literary Digest straw poll: the "protest vote" went almost entirely to Roosevelt; "parlor" Socialists, reached through the straw poll (automobile & telephone owners), are relatively more numerous than "proletarian" Socialists...
...Literary Digest straw vote incorrectly gave Pennsylvania and Delaware to Roosevelt; Massachusetts. Rhode Island and New Jersey to Hoover; but its electoral vote forecast (Roosevelt: 474; Hoover: 57) erred only by two votes in Roosevelt's favor...
...minutes after the food enters, the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin which digest the food into a sour semifluid called chyme. The stomach churns this chyme, pumps it through a valve called the pylorus (gatekeeper) into the duodenum...
...with the overwhelming approval of a sovereign people. His party will control Congress by large majorities; his personal victory will go down in history as one of the greatest landslides ever, recorded by a Democratic candidate. The fog and hysteria of a campaign have dissipated before cold numbers; the Digest Poll is again right...
Returns from New York State indicated that beyond any doubt this state has gone Democratic for the first time since Wilson carried it in 1912. According to the Literary Digest and other election prognosticators, Hoover cannot hope to win without her 45 electoral votes. This was in accord with estimates by Tammany Hall, the New York Times...