Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NROTC men may apply at 4 University Hall for one ticket. Men who received degrees earlier in the academic year in November of March will not need tickets for themselves but may join the procession of Alumni which will form in the order of Seniority in the Sever Quadrangle...
...Pennsylvania primaries, Franklin Roosevelt piled up 300,000 Democratic votes - more than twice the number that Tom Dewey polled on the G.O.P. ticket. But the President's name was on the ballot, while every one of Dewey's 126,000 votes had to be written in. Surprisingly, no less than 5.612 voters (possibly disgruntled Willkieites) wrote in Franklin Roosevelt's name on Republican ballots...
Earl Warren's name had not been among those originally suggested for keynoter. Reason: he was considered a sure bet for second place on a ticket with Tom Dewey, and the keynote spot is usually reserved for a noncandidate. But by the time the G.O.P. Committee on Arrangements met in Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the way had been cleared for the Westerner...
...besides the defeat of Wendell Willkie. Overlooked, until the final returns were in, was the real score of the Democratic primary. In it an anti-Fourth Term slate, campaigning on the slogan "Stop Politics-Win the War," polled 68,000 votes, as against 97,000 for the Term IV ticket...
...remarkably concise style. Said he: "I learned not to waste words when I worked in Brown, Shipley; in those days a short telegram often meant the difference between profit & loss." He always wore a soft felt hat at a rakish angle; usually traveled by subway with his ticket stuck in his hatband. He played the piano gently, walked a lot, carpentered very well. He is devoted to the gardens of his London house, Thorpe Lodge, where he occasionally gives long lectures to his servants...