Word: units
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatly favored was the Governor, whose strength lies in rural districts, by Georgia's primary system of county unit voting, a version of the nation's Presidential Electoral College plan. Each of Georgia's 159 counties casts no less than two nor more than six primary votes. Hence Echols County, with 300 votes, is one-third as influential as Fulton County (Atlanta), with 30,000. Any three back-country counties can offset the vote of the State's largest city, help give victory to a candidate with a minority popular vote...
Progress and Advance are what U. S. railroads are now going in for heavily to resell the public train travel. The Century's two new cars marked Pullman Co.'s boldest innovation in design since the Pintsch gas era. An articulated unit made of alloy steel and aluminum, Advance & Progress together weigh no more than one standard Pullman...
Though streamlined, the new cars are so designed that they can be used along with old-style cars. As more of the new type roll onto the rails, railroads will be able gradually to build up complete streamlined trains. To demonstrate this idea. Pullman will send its new unit all over the U. S. attached for a week at a time to crack non-streamline trains, of which the Century was first...
...four years of college have been divided under the House Plan into two distinct periods. Harvard is perhaps unique among colleges in the extent to which the Freshman year is set apart as a unit. Besides living together in the Yard, the first-year men have their own eating and recreational center in the Union, now turned over to their exclusive use. In athletics there is a complete set-up of Freshman teams, while the intramural sports are organized on a dormitory basis corresponding to the inter-House program of the upper classes...
...country wins the Olympic Games. Officially each contest is a separate event. To consider them all as a unit and arrive at a satisfactory result would be impractical. On the Olympic program there are 22 sports, each containing numerous events, and no two nations would be likely to agree on their comparative importance. Nonetheless, to provide a convenient summary of the Games and some sort of basis for comparison, U. S. sports writers long ago invented a system of tabulation. Considering kayak-paddling the equivalent of foot-racing and awarding ten points for each first place, five for each second...