Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informal poll taken by the Daily Pennsylvanian about 20 players voted against rehiring Sebo, while only two voted to keep him. Less than half of the 46-man squad expressed an opinion in the newspaper's poll, however...
...results of the poll, submitted to J.D. Gisbourne, vice-President in charge of Student Affairs, were considered by a faculty committee on athletics, which met yesterday...
...speak proficient Italian, was interviewed, photographed, talked about wherever she traveled. Her popularity rose to a peak when, ten days after a disastrous crash of an Italian airline plane (Linee Aeree Italiane) in New York, she calmly boarded an LAI plane for a flight home. An Italian public-opinion poll once reported that half of the Italian people knew Clare Luce (normal ambassadorial batting average...
Club Without Bylaws. Virginia's shrewd, courtly Harry Byrd became governor in 1926. He promptly sponsored a forthright antilynching law (Virginia retains today a poll tax that works not so much against Negroes as against non-Byrd-organized outlanders. who often forget to ante up in time). Byrd also spurned easy, inflationary financing in favor of a pay-as-you-go road plan (tourists in Virginia, who bring in $600 million a year, still drive comfortably along Byrd-planned highways). After Harry Byrd went to the U.S. Senate in 1933, his followers continued to give Virginia good government...
...Blue, which was ranked sixteenth in the latest United Press poll, though not even in the top twenty of the Associated Press poll, rates as a 14 and one half-point favorite according to latest quotations...