Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans give one seat per Representative only if his district polled at least 1,000 G.O.P. votes in the last election, another if it topped 10,000. Reason: to reduce the convention strength of Southern delegations, which have axes to grind but few votes to deliver...
...democracy. For three days, five years ago, he had been President of Argentina. Rawson had passed quickly into history, a black-suited figure destined to spend his days amid the Jockey Club's splendors, while one of the obscure figures of the revolution, a man named Juan Domingo Perón, made the country over...
...Order. "In some respects Argentina has changed little since the revolution. The same charges of graft and corruption that had been leveled at Castillo's government are now directed by the opposition toward the Perón administration. Electoral processes, while superficially normal, still give little chance to any but the party in power. But the hitherto neglected working classes have been forged into a political weapon that relieves the President of his sole reliance on the army as a means of staying in office. Higher wages have been showered on them (up 150% since 1943); massed descamisados...
...barrage of buffets and catered meals came at the traditional three times per diem in Lowell, the Union, the Block-house, Mem Hall, the Harvard Club, and the Hotel Somerset with the diet ranging from Dublin stew to roast beef. The food never ran out although at times fraudulent reunions and uninvited guests almost outnumbered the genuine articles. Led by hopeful Olympic oarsmen, a horde of disguised undergraduates lunched Tuesday on seafood Newburgh at Lowell...
...Chemistry concentrators looking for a pleassut way to pass some dewy summer mornings around Cambridge will find the doors of the department's tutorial library flung open invitingly one morning per week...