Word: runoff
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...Atlantic Coastal Plain first rose above sea level, there was as yet no surface drainage system to tap underground waters. Instead, the water bubbled up through the sandy soil. To test his theory, Professor Johnson re-explored the Carolina craters and found startling confirmation: old wave marks and runoff channels which geologists never noticed while they were blinded by a false hypothesis...
...each bracket meet in a runoff...
...stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
...Louisiana, New Deal Senator John H. Overton was renominated and all seven representatives except one, who faced a runoff...
...freak two months ago, a passing nuisance as late as four weeks ago. On returns from 242 of 254 counties, the No. 1 political phenomenon of 1938 appeared to have received a clear majority, thus to have won the Democratic nomination (equivalent to election) without the formality of a runoff. One of the minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll tax because "no sensible man" would lay out money to vote for politicians. To fulfill his campaign promises, Governor-Nominate'' O'Daniel...