Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final judgment on the under-educate ticket situation, the Council packet committee last night cleared the H.A.A. of many of the accusations leveled against it during the past few weeks, lauding at the same time that there are definite needs for "certain alternations and improvements" in the system now employed by the Athletic Association...
...shortage of pens for registering voters had threatened to delay the balloting. Authorities beat the illiteracy problem by printing a different colored ticket for each of the 15 competing parties. The voter thus had merely to select his favorite color from the fistful of slips handed him, and seal the card in an envelope as he stood in the secret polling booth...
...Conant-for-President clubs over the land. Party politics were abandoned in 1948 as this little man almost overnight became a unifying tide and took office as millions sang "Blessed Be The Tide That Binds." For one of the few times in the country's history the People's Ticket was victorious. Political experts were befuddled, news editors swore off alcohol...
Sole backer of the present ticket allotment system was Henry S. Williams '50, serious-minded grandstand quarterback, who said, "A woman's place is in the home, not in the cheering section. When one of them behind me comes out with such remarks as: 'Oh, look! My cute number 60 is limping,' it drives me nuts...
...athletic week were increased from five days to seven, by opening the gym and the squash courts on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays, Freshmen would be able to worry about their studies during the week and their social contacts during the weekend. A loss of sixty cents per athletic ticket and the additional cost of extra men to staff the buildings over the weekend would be a cheap price for the comfortably solvent H.A.A.to pay if it bought Freshmen peace of mind and made something worthwhile out of the Athletic Department. Long lines of hang-dog Freshmen daily pacing...