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...expected, Candidate Benson ran far ahead in city precincts, Candidate Petersen led in the schoolhouse vote. After two days of seesaw ballot-counting, Benson finally overtook Petersen for good, squeaked through, 215,000 to 202,000. The total Farmer-Labor primary vote was by far the highest in its history, more than the 253,000 Republican and 81,000 Democratic votes put together. So Laborite Benson's forces inferred that Farmerite Petersen had recruited much of his support from Republican and Democratic conservatives. This claim was supported by the fact that conservative Republican Martin Nelson, twice his party...
...that Nor graduated from Vassar without any further trouble with algebra, at 28 has just finished her interneship at the Philadelphia General Hospital. He wisely started Winkie earlier, taught her to solve algebraic equations at the age of 5 by telling her that the equal sign was like a seesaw and the numbers on both sides were like children. Father Scott coached Winkie for the geometry in her College Entrance Examinations for Bryn Mawr, in which her mark was 99. Net gave no trouble until, out of Bryn Mawr and married to a wholesale druggist, she tried...
...Barkley," shouted Judge Russell, as he drew out the first slip. "Harrison," barked Judge McKellar on the second. "Harrison."' "Harrison." "Harrison." "Harrison." "Barkley." "Barkley." "Harrison." "Barkley." Seesaw. Seesaw. When the vote reached 37-37 there was a pause and a dead silence. The final ballot looked "big as a quilt" to Candidate Barkley, who bit off his pipestem...
Halted after 11 innings of seesaw baseball because of darkness, the Crimson nine was forced to be content with a 9 to 9 tie in its games Saturday with St. John's at Soldiers Field...
Undoubtedly the feature bout was a brilliant seesaw battle in the unlimited class in which Tudor Gardiner, undefeated Yardling, finally triumphed over Roderick H. Cox 1G by the meagre time advantage of 1:53. At different periods during the exhaustive match both came within a hair's breadth of pinning the other...