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...Explanation: Supposing that 30,000 votes are cast in one constituency as follows: 13,000 for the Labor candidate; 9,000 for the Liberal; 8,000 for the Conservative. The net result is that 17,000 Liberal and Conservative votes are absolutely wasted, while but 13,000 suffice to elect the Labor candidate. In Germany, under the same circumstances, the Labor candidate would still have been elected but the other votes would have been credited to the party for which they were cast. After the election each German party totals up the "left over votes" it gets in this...
...net result was the reappearance of Frank Shaughnessy, lateral pass expert, the presence of Jesse Hawley, former Dartmouth coach, on the field in football togs, and a particularly ineffective showing of Team A in scrimmage against the third freshman football team. The phosphorus ball used in the later stages of practice was the only ray of light the whole afternoon...
Here is the geologist's view of history, told from his adventures among the tracks of prehistoric man and animals left on rooks and in river beds. $3.50 net...
...extraordinarily vivid and characteristically acid style of these letters can be imagined by any one who has read "The Education of Henry Adams" $5.00 net...
...this poem are manifest the range of Robinson's observation and psychological insight, the keen light of his intellect, his irony, the lyric splendor that marked "Tristram" and the tragic intensity of "Cavender's House." $2.00 net...