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Word: stag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because seven out of ten Radcliffe dormitories voted against the plan to have a stag line at the Christmas Formal, there will be an all-college vote on Monday to decide definitely on the proposal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Dorm Poll Opposes Stag Plan | 10/29/1954 | See Source »

...basis of his experience, "Radcliffe would have a better dance with only boys carefully selected by each girl for herself. I can't see four the life of me what one woman's going to do with three men." Montgomery added that he did not think the stag idea was "in good taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Dance Chairmen Denounce Stag Plan for Radcliffe Formal | 10/28/1954 | See Source »

Goldman said that he would not only refuse to go as a stag, but that even the regular date would be plagued by "other characters standing around waiting to cut in." He explained that previously, an invitation to a Radcliffe dance was an honor, and he fears that stage will turn a once "quiet, sophisticated evening" into a "rat race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Dance Chairmen Denounce Stag Plan for Radcliffe Formal | 10/28/1954 | See Source »

...Cabot, amid cries of "My steady won't come if I ask stags," students over whelmingly vetoed the "stag" proposal by a vote of 104 to four. Moors social chairmen were instructed not to reveal the majority by which Moors residents turned down the proposal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Decides to Invite Stags For Formal Despite Objections | 10/21/1954 | See Source »

...extra session either before or after the November elections. An alternative might be keeping Congress around town during the dog days (no more distasteful to the legislators than to the President, yearning for a rest in Denver). For the long run, the President theorized at a White House stag dinner that the Constitution might well be amended to provide four-year terms for House members.* The President's reasons: Congressmen now spend half of their two-year terms campaigning and voting to please factions back home instead of for the nation's best interests; a Congress elected simultaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Work Unfinished | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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