Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell, picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League by a pre-season coaches' poll which chose the Crimson for seventh, will start an experienced team against the varsity. Like the Crimson, Cornell won its first two contests, beating Buffalo, 83 to 73, and Colgate...
...Georgia voting districts so rigged that although his choice for governor in 1954 won only 36.6 percent of the popular vote, he was a landslide winner under the state's county unit system.) But bloc voting is only one of the NAACP's crimes. They are also opposed to poll-taxes, have a powerful lobby, and hold parties where whites are sometimes seen dancing with Negroes. The NAACP is a terrible menace to America. ("They take the same attitude about swimming pools. If they can't swim with the White people, they don't want to swim. And they...
...constitutional amendment eliminating the poll...
Continuing its series of trial heats between potential Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, the Gallup Poll last week matched Vice President Richard Nixon against Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver. The results, excluding voters who answered that they were still undecided, showed Kefauver 52%, Nixon 48% (against 58% for Kefauver and 42% for Nixon in a poll taken last April...
...committee, headed by Sirgay Sanger '56, will examine three things: secondary school language training, college language courses, and the educational and practical value of language study. The investigation will be conducted almost wholly from a student approach and the committee will probably poll members of the freshman and senior classes in the near future...