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Word: voted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already disapproved by a close vote of the College Administrative Board, the mid-term marking system was instituted in 1943 when University Hall realized the need for keeping closer tabs on progress of men who were leaving during terms to join the armed services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Postpones Decision on Grades System Until April 1 | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...would collect its due. But stubbornly the King procrastinated, hoping somehow to hang on to his throne. In 1944, he named his tall (6 ft.) playboy son and Crown Prince, Umberto, as "Lieutenant General of the Realm," subject to the people's will to be expressed by free vote. Victor Emmanuel remained a king in name only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Little King | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Naples. For hours he sat erect on a camp chair, his short, spindly legs clear of the royal yacht's deck. Only one sgómbro bit. The political fishing was just as bad. The king's few remaining friends told him that the Italian people would vote against the monarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Little King | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...women students as stepsisters. A full 28 years after Oxford (founded circa 1100), Cambridge has finally caught up with the times, made the women's Girton and Newnham Colleges full kith & kin to the men's colleges. Henceforth, women will be able to take their degrees, vote in university government, hold all but two Cambridge offices (exceptions: proctor and mace-bearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Equal Rights | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Carson City, Nev., Skelly got a temporary injunction preventing Getty from taking a vote of Mission stockholders on the merger. That was enough to block it through Dec. 23, which Getty and Sunray had agreed would be the deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Boiling Oil | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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