Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tutorial program was instituted in 1938 then disintegrated during the war. Last year there were about 60 men tutoring, with this year's turnout being the highest since the war. All the work is done on a charitable basis...
...democracy, are today corroded by 16 years' dictatorship, war and defeat. They have probably made greater progress toward democracy than the U.S. had a right to expect on V-E day; the many political-action groups which have sprung up all over West Germany, and the high turnout (nearly 80% of the eligible voters) at last summer's elections, indicate that at least some Germans have begun to see that the government is their concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous warmth toward America's representative which surprised...
Actually the turnout was a compliment not only to Poets Cummings and Auden, but to year-old Brandeis (named for the late great Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis) as well. Each week, people had been coming from Harvard and Wellesley, from Boston and other nearby towns, to attend Brandeis' new Institute of Adult Education. For so new a university, ambitious little Brandeis was attracting more than its share of attention...
...Election Day last week, as a record turnout of Bostonians headed for the polls, Hynes got a valuable last-minute public endorsement from Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, an ex-mayor who had twice beaten Curley himself. When the returns were in, Jim Curley had racked up the biggest total in his eight campaigns for mayor (126,000), but Johnny Hynes had collected 12,000 more...
...record off-year turnout, they booted aside four Republicans and installed four Democrats in the posts of treasurer, controller, coroner and register of wills...