Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote for letting girls use the building in the morning was 315 to 14, and during vacation 252 to 15. Two hundred forty-five said Radcliffe should be admitted to Lamont classrooms for section meetings, with 31 opposed...
Last night, on the basis of the sample taken, he said, "I wish to thank the students for what I consider a vote of confidence for the practical projects we have undertaken this year...
Besides the President, professors, associate professors, and assistant professors, all of whom are entitled to vote at the University Council meeting, all nonpermanent faculty members can attend the conference but may not vote...
...with silky good humor, or freezing them with quiet contempt. His political pliability sometimes leads him to weakness. Recently, the Socialists introduced a bill in the Bundestag providing cash Christmas gifts for refugees. A Christian Democrat spokesman pointed out that this was a purely political bill designed to win votes, and that the government had no money to spare for the bonus proposal. But when the Socialists forced an open roll-call vote and Adenauer's name was called as the first on the alphabetical list, the Chancellor did not dare oppose the bill. He rose and weakly voted...
...Washington last week just the same. Agreed a majority of the representatives of U.S. Greek-letter societies, in a resolution swathed in verbal cotton wool: fraternities that have "selective membership provisions" (i.e., whose bylaws bar anybody on grounds of race or religion) ought to "eliminate such selectivity provisions." The vote: 36 for, 3 against, 19 abstaining...