Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theory about the preferential ballot is that you vote for as many people as you want. Contrary to expectation, a fourth or even fifth or sixth vote may mean something in a close election, and there is no reason to think that today's elections won't be close...
...Society's first accomplishment was a ship-to-shore broadcast of the Eastern Sprints regatta last May by walkie-talkie from the official launch. The reports of the races were relayed to the crowd at the finish line over a public address system...
...Prins may take heart, however, in the fact that relations with students are improving through our connections with departmental clubs, wider publicity in school-wide mailings, and the Graduate Bulletin. With the construction of the new graduate center, they will improve even more. There is nonetheless a real apathy on the part of graduate students towards the problems of the school as a whole. Even Prins, for instance, despite the zeal that spurred him to write his letter, has not to my knowledge volunteered to assist any of the Council committees, though the opportunity was offered to all students...
Someone who has seen "Sitting Pretty" may not care for Clifton Webb's new film--for "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" suffers by comparison. If it had come before "Sitting Pretty," it might have had a better chance. Nevertheless, taken by itself "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" offers many a chuckle for admirers of that dapper, self-confessed genius Lynn Belvedere...
...may remember that Lynn Belvedere touched off a social explosion at the end of "Sitting Pretty" with the publication of his novel "Hummingbird Hill." In the interim between the two movies, he lost a fortune in libel suits, but at the same time won a literary award of $10,000. Since the award stipulates that the recipient must hold a college degree, in "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" we find Mr. Belvedere doing just that--entering the ivied campus of Clemens U. as a gray-haired freshman...