Word: nods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard had voted in the Spring of 1920, the election would have gone, eight years prematurely, to Herbert Hoover. When a smoke-filled room nominated Harding for the job that summer, the College got right in step, giving the Great Gamaliel the nod over Gov. Cox by 270 votes. But the Democratic campaign at College featured a major address by Cox in the Union and a boost from President Eliot. These two factors now made the Democrats much stronger at Harvard than at other Eastern schools...
...weekly sprint to Warren House has started again. More than 1250 Freshman members of English A face a long winter of neatly-folded themes, conferences with tired instructors, and slow-moving class meetings twice a week. Their sections have been arbitrarily assigned without so much as a nod towards the varying abilities of the students. Skillful writers may very well find themselves classed with other men who have to be coached all the way up from the fundamentals of grammar. The result is an unwieldy and inflexible course, with material geared to its slowest students...
...Class of '52 will nominate and vote for their officers during the next two weeks, without waiting for the nod from the Dean's Office on candidate's academic standing. Freshman elections will be run by Luretta Davis '49, president of the Senior Class and '52 advisor...
Ottawa politicos must never forget the No. 1 rule of Dominion politics: whatever you do, don't make Quebec sore. In following this ironclad precept last week, the Federal Government winked at violations of the immigration laws and gave a nod to the violators...
...organizational meeting after Schlesinger's speech, the HLU voted 22 to 15 to endorse Truman for President. John Kennedy, running from Congress from this district, also got the HLU nod...