Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month when more Democrats turned out in the Ohio primaries than at any time in the last 20 years. Last week it surged unmistakably across politically powerful California, the G.O.P.'s last outpost on the West Coast. In the popularity-poll California primary, the Democratic candidate for Governor, State Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, outpolled U.S. Senator William Knowland, Republican candidate for Governor, by 600,000 votes, and Democrats outpolled Republicans all up and down the ballot (see Elections...
Science then meant Aristotelian science, even though the Copernican system had been adopted by the 1660's. There were no laboratories until the eighteenth century, and the only piece of scientific apparatus the College owned until that time was a telescope presented by Governor Winthrop...
...Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
...correspondent; of cancer; in Montreal. A top moneymaker among Canadian authors, Shapiro seined his best haul in 1955 when the Book-of-the-Month Club picked up The Sixth of June, the story of a love affair and its relationship to the invasion of Normandy, which also won the Governor General's award for fiction, became a Hollywood movie...
...afternoon of Commencement Day, the polling for the election of the Overseers will be announced. Aside from the introduction of the new president of the Association, this will be the only official business transacted at the meeting, which will then be given over to speeches by the Governor, the President of the Association, and two or three of the honorary degree winners...