Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only other tackle game played yesterday, Kirkland crushed Winthrop, 16-0, on a safety and two touchdowns, all in the second half...
...Tuesday, Quincy narrowly managed to score its second soccer victory when Winthrop was able to field only five players for the contest...
...Proportional Representation, the Cambridge method of voting for Council and School Committee. A single ballot lists the names of all candidates in alphabetical order (there are no primary elections) and without regard to party affiliation or other endorsement. The voter marks his first choice with a 1, second choice with a 2, etc., expressing as many preferences as he wishes. After each election a quota is established representing the smallest number of votes that will be counted to elect the proper number of people to each body. Then each candidate who achieves this quota is declared elected, until all places...
...count, each ballot represents only one vote; if a ballot cannot help the person markd as first choice--either because he is already elected or because he is obviously defeated--the vote goes to the second choice and so on. Thus, the ballot is transformed from pile to pile until it can help someone...
...move from the Bach Society to the HRO, however, Senturia took the long route around: Gaining experience in Munich through study and by work for a few weeks "with a second-rate opera company, one which traveled from village to village presenting operas." As recipient of the Paine Traveling Fellowship in Music during 1958-59, he studied at the Munich Conservatory--and even gained an offer of a job conducting an orchestra for Siemens Electric, "the General Electric of Germany...