Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first step of a large-scale attempt to investigate meals in the College, the Inter-House Food Committee will conduct a poll at lunch and dinner today in the five houses served by the central kitchen--Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell, and Winthrop...
...times in two years the American Institute of Public Opinion's George Gallup has deployed polltakers across the land to ask: "If President Eisenhower were the Republican candidate and Adlai Stevenson were the Democratic candidate, which would you like to see win?" Last week Gallup reviewed the seven polls, found that Eisenhower since 1954 has slowly broadened the gap. A year and a half ago, 53% of decided voters were for him. In his latest poll, taken just before Ike announced his availability, Gallup found 66% of decided voters for Ike, 34% for Adlai. Concluded Gallup: "In an election...
Before the vote, however, an invited visitor established that "the Casino has a better show,and Cronin's has better beer." Representatives from the Freshman Union committee also said that in an informal poll, four of their members had voted to keep the smoker, 11 to modify it, and nine to abolish...
...people came to this conclusion before Ike did. Early last October the Gallup poll found that only 29% of the people thought the President would run again. But in late October it was 33%, in December 48%, in January 56%, in February 60%, last week...
...hero, Tom Claiborne, is a burnt-out Southern poet who keeps trying to fire up the clinkers of his talent with alcohol. His wife Vera is a moneybags and a ninny with whom he has been out of love for a decade or more. While Vera breeds Red Poll bulls on their Bucks County, Pa., farm, Tom holds a running bull session with, 1) the spirit of his rakehell father, 2) the voice of his moral and artistic conscience (it speaks in italics), 3) the bittersweet memories of expatriate days centering around a Dionysian, suicide-bent poet named Home Watts...