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Word: quorums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After it got going, it was a considerable success," Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, Council member in charge of Freshmen affairs and chairman of the meeting, commented last night. More than the required quorum of 150 men was present at 7 o'clock when Council President Richard G. Axt '46, introduced by Weld, briefly outlined the duties and requirements of a Council member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Choose 25 Candidates to Run in First Council Election | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

Last night's turnouts contrasted sharply with Monday's results, when Adams failed to produce a quorum at its meeting, and two other nomination sessions had to be postponed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Select Nominees for Council Posts | 4/16/1947 | See Source »

...Winthrop, however, last night's results were not achieved without some effort, as it was necessary to combine the House smoker and free beer with the nomination meeting in order to lure enough Puritans from their rooms to attain a quorum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Select Nominees for Council Posts | 4/16/1947 | See Source »

Kirkland House was the only group to achieve a quorum as a tri-day series of College-wide nomination meetings for House representatives to the Student Council got under way last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Only House to Pick Council Candidates | 4/15/1947 | See Source »

Senators strolled wearily out to the cloakrooms, strolled back in again at the double clang of the quorum bell, while Missouri's tireless Republican Forrest Donnell droned through his exhaustive "introduction" to the bill to outlaw portal-to-portal pay suits, kept the floor for the better part of three days. Grumbled one Senator: "We ought to meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and let Donnell meet on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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