Word: polls
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...would be unable to study while living at the Quad; others had alumni parents plead their cases to the housing office. All told, about 60 Quad residents have transferred so far this year and many more hope to follow them. Nor is the trend abating: in a housing poll released today more than half of the freshmen polled listed Quad Houses among the two Houses in which they would least like to live...
...vote at the town meeting in Huntington, one needs only to have paid the $1 poll tax. Of the 519 citizens eligible to cast ballots, about 130 braved a healthy snowfall to show up during the course of the 4½-hour meeting. At 10 a.m., Moderator Norman Cummings, 47, a carton designer at the General Electric plant in nearby Burlington, opened the proceedings with the customary "Hear ye, hear ye," and began going through the eleven-item agenda. Children scurried about the benches, and old folk chatted quietly in the corners. Some wandered out, and others came in from...
There was, of course, more political substance to Saltonstall's career. He introduced and saw enacted the first compulsory automobile insurance bill in the country; as a young boy vacationing out West he heard William Jennings Bryan speak; he commissioned the first political poll in New England for his 1938 gubernatorial campaign. And as governor, he strove always for balanced budgets, and campaigned primarily on that issue as well as his own integrity. In the Senate, Saltonstall served as the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and later was its ranking Republican member...
...three will be enshrined in the hallowed corridors of Cooperstown on August 8 along with Ernie Banks, who was elected in the regular poll of sportswriters...
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is "sheer nonsense," opined Author Rebecca West. For one thing, young girls in love do not go to their first balls in a "state of lust" like hussars, she argued. The occasion: a 75th anniversary poll by London's Times Literary Supplement of 43 writers, artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring...