Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of the 1959 Permanent Class Committee moved last night to end the dispute over the election of Senior Class Marshals. Three members of the eleven-man group, however, dissented from the majority position...
Wolverine. In Ann Arbor, University of Michigan coeds went on a food strike, listed eleven complaints-ten charging greasy food, unpopular dishes, bad cooking, etc., the eleventh complaining because there were no second helpings...
Background. Until 1917, the Senate had no real cloture rule. In March 1917 a band of eleven Senators led by Progressives Robert La Follette of Wisconsin and George Norris of Nebraska filibustered to death President Wilson's request for permission to arm U.S. merchantmen against German submarines.* When Wilson called the Senate into extraordinary session, an outraged majority, led by Montana's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Walsh, imposed a rule under which debate could be ended by two-thirds of the Senators voting. But the new rule had a fatal flaw: it provided a method for cloture...
...more guest-conducting invitations than he can handle, is currently on a three-month tour of Canada and the U.S. Perhaps Britain's most popular conductor (he was knighted in 1949), Barbirolli recalled last week that he had started his career as a cellist at the age of eleven: "If I can live for the next two years, I will have been before the public as a musician for 50 years. Every man in the public eye must have his ups and downs. They can't let the downs stop them...
...With eleven products in the museum's haughtily thoughtful collection, and four in the show itself, Designer Charles Eames dominated the scene. The great Finn, Eliel Saarinen (Eero's father), took...