Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faulty vote counting in the 1950 Permanent Class Committee election was discovered last night when a recount held in the Student Council office revealed that William L. Curwen '50 is actually on the committee, and Albert B. Carter '50 is number 13 in competition for the 12-man group...
...recount taken last night at the request of defeated candidate John H. Carnahan, who finished 14th, showed that the election committee had made errors in tabulating the results Wednesday night, when Carter was declared elected and Curwen was put in the 13th spot...
...recount also turned up six ballots which were invalid because they had 13 names on them, one more than the legal maximum...
...some curious reason, the director started the story with the death of Bosinney and used a flashback to recount the central action of the picture. For those who had not read the book, this must have taken much of the punch out of the plot. If this wasn't enough to do so, then the astonishingly dull seript was. Some of the lines were so trite, that I felt the way an English A teacher must when his pupils read their early themes...
...conviction that he believes what he says. He recalls a very American vanishing type-the philosopher-politician who has been a trial lawyer. His is the manner of the leader of the state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart to be true...