Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Auburn, the unbeaten, untied giant of the Southeastern Conference, Monday became the first winner of the Associated Press National Football Championship Trophy. The Tigers, whose sturdy defense yielded only four touchdowns in 10 games, drew a landslide vote in the final poll of the season...
...teaching fellow "is going to get the maximum benefit from two years of teaching," Elder asserted, a feeling seconded by many respondents to the poll. Teaching more than two years, Elder said, is done for financial, rather than educational reasons...
...outside world; Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, ready, in Sputnik's day, to cash in on five years of criticizing Republican defense policy; Adlai Stevenson, believed by many to be eager to try against some Republican besides Ike; Estes Kefauver, still, according to the Gallup poll, the peepul's choice (he leads second-place Jack Kennedy by 26% to 19%, but professional Democratic politicians are more unwilling than ever-if possible-to accept him); and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams, and even Oregon's odd Senator Wayne Morse...
...brilliant southpass, whose 21 victories were a prime factor in Milwaukee's first National League pennant, received all but one of the votes of the 16-man panel of baseball writers who participated in the annual poll. The other vote went to Dick Donovan, of Quincy, Mass., the Chicago White Sox' big righthander...
...poll of a dozen Harvard and Radcliffe organizations last night indicated that few of the clubs which have parallel functions plan to combine in the immediate future, though they did not discount eventual merger...