Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next his skin) to which he secures his large ("dollar") watch by a large ("baby's") safety pin. In England St. Gandhi wears a second and often a third shawl. The three cover him tentwise when he sits crosslegged, showing only his big toes, small hands and birdlike poll topped with stiff black & white hairs clipped to a length...
...well-to-do and a débutante, a young woman who knows members willing to write letters in her behalf may be admitted to the Junior League. Last week the Junior League voted, through the Junior League Magazine's poll, 8,021-to-397 against the 18th Amendment. But the Association of Junior-Leagues of America, Inc. (23,300 members) never goes on record officially in any political question. Commented Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, national chairman of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform: "The result of the poll is one of the most telling blows...
Under the leadership of the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, a National Student Poll on Disarmament will be conducted until December 15 by every college in the United States for the purpose of getting a nation-wide tabulation of student opinion on the question. The college newspapers, Christian Associations, International Relations Clubs, Liberal Clubs, or any other local groups may combine in whatever type of organization seems most desirable to those interested in promoting and conducting the preparatory discussions and the voting...
...best cinema directors of 1930-1931, as selected by Film Daily's poll of 300 U. S. cinema critics...
...Willa Cather's Northeast passages are never purple. Captious critics might complain that she sometimes simplifies too far, that her people are sometimes so one-sided as to be simply silly, that she sometimes, for one who can write like an angel, gives a fair imitation of poor Poll: "When Pierre had made a landing and tied his boat, they went up the path to the smith's house, to find the family at dinner. They were warmly received and seated at the dinnertable. The smith had no son, but four little girls. After dinner Cécile...