Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual game (middle 80s), and shooting in the 90s. Then the President settled down in "the Eisenhower Cabin," as the Augusta National Golf Club officially calls the $75,000, seven-room house it built for Ike. The "cabin," styled with a white-columned front porch and a steep slate roof with dormer windows, perches on a ridge by a pine grove between the clubhouse and the row of smaller cabins used by other members. Among the interior decorations: a set of 18 photographs showing previous homes occupied by the Dwight Eisenhowers; a painting by Ike of grandson David, his face...
...reason that the P.R. system of voting seems neither fair nor democratic is that from a slate of 35 candidates of which 9 councillors were to be elected, the Cambridge voter using the P.R. (number) system of voting was restricted in effect to 1/9th of a vote for 9 councillors. Likewise, from a slate of 18 candidates of which 6 were to be elected, each voter was restricted to 1/6th of a vote for 6 school committeemen. This was tantamount to using a chance or lottery system which is contrary to the American ideal visioned by our founding fathers...
Radcliffe correctly answered that George Washington had taken command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, (Minnesota said Lexington) but could name only three of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Asked what was written on the slate in the song "School Days," they incorrectly replied "I love you so." (Answer: "I love...
...schedule is now complete for the next two years, but by 1956 the B.C. deemphasis will have been in effect for two years and a game with Boston College, coupled with a strong seven game Ivy schedule will make an appealing eight game slate, something better than a schedule of nine games, two of which are played to an empty Stadium...
...antedote to misgivings in examining the other candidates. It will take more than an NBC to purify Boston politics completely. But the committee is a start, weakened by the lack of patronage, but worthwhile and well-directed. The NBC again deserves the support of the Boston voters for its slate...