Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Cambridge pigeonry has lost at least 30 of its members since the hawk--Falco Peregrinus Anatum--arrived on October 16, according to a count made by Peter L. Ames '53 of the Ornithological Society. Ames climbed the tower last Friday with the clockwinder to count carcasses dropped by the hawk from the upper roof...
...Georgia turned down Governor Herman Talmadge's power-grabbing proposal to count general election returns, as Georgia primary votes are counted, on the basis of county units instead of popular vote...
...came home to roost last week. Republican Congressman W. Kingsland ("Dear King") Macy, to whom it was written, had spread copies of it around, in hopes that it would embarrass Tom Dewey (TIME, Oct. 23). It didn't; it was King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed to elect a Republican Congressman. Dewey himself...
Four times last week Britain's socialist government was forced to count heads in Parliament. It won slim majorities over the combined opposition of Tories and Liberals on three vital issues: i) housing, 2) cost of living, 3) controls. The respective votes...
...physicist a sharp kick in the shins to keep him within his time limit), Review no longer has much trouble persuading them to appear. By last week, they were receiving fan letters at the rate of 875 a week, fewer than Berle (who doesn't bother to count them anymore), but enough to suggest that there is a TV audience for something besides comics...