Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shanghai woman asked her college-educated daughter to explain what elections were all about. She was told: "For instance, the alley is dirty. You elect a man who will speak of it before the National Assembly and have it cleaned...
...Hallowell '32, University mile record-holder (4:12 indoors), will speak along with captain-elect Frank Gurley. Gurley missed the cross country season, but has been working out in the cage and now appears ready to better his last year's 4:25 effort in the mile...
Upper-class shutter bugs will gather to draw up a constitution and elect temporary officers for a College photographic society...
...favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...
...meeting also adopted with changes, a constitution previously drawn up by the temporary steering committee, and formed four sub-committees on Political Action, Membership, Program, and Publicity, which will elect their own chairman later this week...