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Word: pr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...referendum passed by a 2,033 vote margin, with 25,068 favoring PR and 23,330 against. There were 8,224 blanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Decides in Favor of PR System | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

Cambridge was the first community in Massachusetts to adopt Plan E and PR. The system was instituted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Decides in Favor of PR System | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

...giving PR a vote of confidence, Cambridge defeated the efforts of the Cambridge Committee for American Voting, which had been waging a campaign to return to plurality voting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Decides in Favor of PR System | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

...Medford, Newton, Quincy, and Arlington, however, voters decided not to keep PR...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Decides in Favor of PR System | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

...Germain des Prés, on the Left Bank, long-haired men and short-haired women worked diligently to keep the cult going. Bebop boîtes, hairdos, beards, evening gowns, newspapers, cocktails, hot-dog stands became "existentialist." An under-tipped taxi driver would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gone Respectable | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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