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Word: poll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Varsity Football Lettermen Vote Against Rehiring of Coach | 12/8/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Varsity Football Lettermen Vote Against Rehiring of Coach | 12/8/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: This Fragile Blonde | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: Wrong Turn at the Crossroads | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

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