Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...departure in the class elections has appeared with the nomination of Filstrup who is a Senior in the Engineering School. Never before has an engineering School. Never before has an engineering student's name been sent in for the ballot. Filstrup was nominated as the result of an open straw vote taken among the seniors at the school last week, who desired to be represented in the elections. Results of the elections will be printed in Friday's CRIMSON...
Earle Martin went rummaging last week for his old alpaca coat and soiled straw hat. On & off for 25 years they were part of his uniform as a newspaper editor. The coat was comfortable. Tho hat, worn winter & summer (with occasional changes for a battered felt), kept pressroom grime from the editor's bald pate. Now, after four years of blue serge and spotless linen as a Chamber of Commerce executive, he would need his old accoutrements again. He had just been hired as editor of the Cleveland News...
...Oregon State on a safety, 8-to-6, Columbia & Syracuse and Holy Cross & Manhattan played scoreless ties. Iowa State's Captain Magnussen performed a strategem suggested to him by Iowa State's new Coach Ossie Solem. He stood 20 paces away from a pile of burning straw, tossed a burning football shoe at it over his left shoulder. Next day Iowa State lost to Northwestern, 44-to-6. After 40 years of football against North Carolina, Duke and its new Coach Wallace Wade managed to win for the first time, 7-to-0. Ever since their...
Scripps-Howard, admitting the difficulty of keeping circulation straw-bosses honest...
...Literary Digest straw vote incorrectly gave Pennsylvania and Delaware to Roosevelt; Massachusetts. Rhode Island and New Jersey to Hoover; but its electoral vote forecast (Roosevelt: 474; Hoover: 57) erred only by two votes in Roosevelt's favor...