Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University is far from a cross section of its opinion. All that the vote shows is that there is in the University as elsewhere a determined group--a fairly sizable group--of active pro-Leaguers who found in the Plan a real step toward eventual League membership and voted "Yes" en Masse, and a much smaller group, just as determined that no steps leading anywhere near the League shall be taken, which voted "No." Pretty certainly some undefinite number of those who found the Plan not strong enough and of those who found it a little too strong...
...laid much confidence on the power of propinquity, sitting and silence. . . . When the hour ripened for action, he gently spread a kerchief upon the carpeted floor on Maple Street. . . . He confided to her alone that Fate had pointed to the Presidency for him. . . . She replied in a monosyllable: 'Yes.' . . . Asked once by a representative of the press for the romance of her marriage, Grace Goodhue Coolidge replied: 'Have you ever seen my husband?' . . . If Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge has ever deplored her decision, she has had too much loyalty to the President to betray...
Many men, however, have not been content with a simple Yes or No. Some exceedingly interesting qualifications have been attached to the ballots, ranging from absolute disagreement with the Plan to refusal to vote for it because it was "an unpalatable does of casuistry." One man believed that the Plan was a scheme to get the American public to approve unwillingly of a form of world association which it has already repudiated in the strongest possible language" namely, the League of Nations. Another approved of the substance, but protested against the selection of a plan which contained nothing original...
...believe that every person who is interested in having the United States cooperate in preserving the peace of the world, should vote 'yes' on the ballot now being held by the CRIMSON. This plan may not be all that some would have it, but it will serve, if adopted, to break down the walls of aloofness now existing between the United States and Europe...
...this is not sufficient grounds for indignation, or for accusations of fraud or trickery. The important point is that everyone who votes Yes or No on the plan must know that he really is voting Yes or No on the League of Nations. And by design or accident, the summary which appears on the ballots gives the impression that the League has practically nothing to do with the Bok Prize Plan by displaying the Court of International Justice in altogether undue prominence, and relegating the League to the second paragraph, with misleading phraseology and even without capital letters...