Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poll of the 1958 graduating class, 13 of the 137 seniors who planned to start work immediately intended to enter the government service...
Tackle Robert Shaunessy, this season's varsity captain, made the All-Ivy First Team in the Associated Press' annual football poll. The results were announced yesterday, after the final weekend of Ivy League play...
...said Grace, "we are not getting on well enough together." He cited Latin American answers to a LIFE poll that asked: "Should this country take sides with the East, the West, or stay out of the cold war altogether?" In Caracas 68% felt that their country should be neutralist, in Mexico City 66%, in Buenos Aires 62%, in Montevideo 51%, in Bogota 49%, and in Lima 34%-"This," said Grace, "is a very rude awakening to the realities." Grace's suggested solutions: ¶ A Secretary for Hemisphere Affairs modeled after Britain's Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations...
...sunny creation is an ingenuous, ingenious teenage adventurer named Tintin, who acts like a Rover Boy, looks like the early Skeezix with his upswept lock of hair, and is easily Europe's most popular comic-strip character. French children once named him their favorite hero in a magazine poll, gave him nearly three times as many votes as Napoleon. Compared to U.S. characters, Tintin has a close kinship to Little Orphan Annie in his devotion to morality. Like Annie, oddly enough, Tintin has undeveloped eyes, e.g., she has circles but no dots; he has dots but no circles...
Although there are not many mixed Sophomore groups this year, Pettigrew said a straw poll taken among Harvard Sophomores indicated a willingness to include girls in House tutorial sessions...