Word: recounter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shaking his intelligent head doubtfully in meditation upon the probable results of an adoption of the rumored proposal to shorten the terms of lectures in the college year. The rest of the editorial columns are filled by the engaging Leander Snipe, who writes from upper New York State to recount the unfortunate falling out between those pillars of the Advocate's staff in other years, W. D. Edmonds and Essenz von Biershaum. Leanaer's letter has in it more life and warmth than any of the fiction to be found elsewhere in the magazine. H. W. Bragdon's "1000 Leagues...
After the treating of the Nomination Committee to choose candidates for the second group of class officers, a petition was received and accepted from R. S. Kazantian '27 for a recount of the votes cast for the office of Poet W. N. Magie '28, chairman of the Junior Election Committee according to the policy adopted by that body, granted the request. The result was that the majority of the winner Pierpent Stackpole '27, was somewhat increased...
...year anti-Republican trend was most noticeable, the Republicans winning by unusually small pluralities. For example, in Indiana, Republican Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson were reelected by some 20,000 votes instead of the normal 100,000 Republican majority. The Democrats have asked for a recount in several counties, but this will probably not change the results...
...however, in her taste for political carnage. Recently she entered the battle for a Florida Congressional -representativeship, and the struggle was mighty, for at its end the count showed that her opponent, Congressman Sears, was ahead by 426 votes out of 40,500 cast. Mrs. Owen asked a recount...
...audiences that attend the Friday concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra are famous for their nonchalance. Lovers of music who have visited Philadelphia recount with indignation how rudely the people drift in, in casual ones and twos and in large box parties, always late?sometimes so late that when the curtain rises most of the seats are vacant. The Philadelphians, however, are rarely late for their teas. If the concert is long, they rise and leave, bowing to their friends and murmuring goodbyes, and hurry away to scones and cinnamon toast and caroling kettles, leaving the music to make its swanlike...