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Word: voted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Class of 1949 elected 14 men to the Class Day Committee yesterday, and overwhelmingly approved the constitution drawn up and submitted for vote by the Permanent Class Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Choose 14 Officers For Class Day Committee | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...constitution was approved by a vote of 346 to 82. A total of 558 seniors cast ballets either in person at the Houses or by mail. Final count for the position of Ivy Grater could not be tallied until some time today, William D. Weeks '49, secretary of the Permanent Class Committee, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Choose 14 Officers For Class Day Committee | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...peasant woman: "Why don't they both just jump off a cliff and give us some peace!" The People's Alliance, which had picked for its emblem the country's founder, Saint Marinus (who once bridled and saddled a big brown bear), shouted for its slogan "Vote for Long Beard (San Marino), not for Big Whiskers (Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN MARINO: Long Beard v. Big Whiskers | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...floats a mysterious character known as Nick Beal (Ray Milland). At first Beal supplies the prosecutor with evidence against a big-time gambler; then he stands at the lawyer's elbow, goading his political ambitions. By the time Mitchell has been persuaded to play ball with a corrupt, vote-powerful political machine, it is clear that his sly, satanic ally called Beal is really Beelzebub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Propaganda. In Vidette, Ark., half the voters had to wade knee-deep across a water-flooded highway bridge before they reached the polling place to vote on a state bond issue for highway improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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