Fourth Attempt Research Articles

By—Elections in Parliamentary Careers, 1918-1959

IFTY-TWO BY-ELECTIONS were held after the general election of May 1955 and before the October 1959 general election.1 One hundred and thirty-six candidates contested, two appeared in two by-elections: thirtyone of them lost and did not appear in the 1959 general election. Thirteen of these losers had no previous record this was their first, and so far their only candidacy. Three were Labour candidates, four were Liberals, two were Conservatives, and the remaining four stood under various party designations. Eighteen losers had previous records. For twelve this was their second defeat, for four their third loss, and for one it was his fourth unsuccessful attempt. One of the eighteen had been elected once, had failed to contest in 1955, and thus suffered his first defeat in a 1956 by-election. Party affiliations were: Labour, eight; Conservatives, five; Liberals, two; and others, three. The remaining 105 contestants 56 with previous records and 49 who appeared for the first time in these by-elections reappeared as candidates in the 1959 general election. The experienced candidates showed quite a range of previous wins and losses, from once elected and once defeated to twice elected and six times defeated, seven times elected and six times defeated, and other combinations. Four had first been candidates in 1929; 24 between 1945 and 1951; and 28 in 1955. What happened to both beginners and old hands can be shown conveniently in a table. TABLE I

If at first you don't succeed

AbstractCitizen efforts to secure increased funds for St. Paul Schools and teacher salaries rewarded on fourth attempt.

Strength Factors of Steels

WHILE considering the specification requirements of various steels, the possibility of graphically correlating the main factors occurred to the writer. At the first attempt, a correlation of ultimate tensile strengths with proof stresses produced, graphically, a sort of hyperbola; at the second attempt, by changing the vertical and horizontal scales, and working to average figures, the graph took the form of a straight line ending in a hyperbolic curve; at the third attempt the graph became a straight line with plotted points not exactly coincidental with the line; the fourth attempt produced the U.T.S./Proof Stress “curve” which is the subject of this paper.

Successful operation for mesenteric vascular occlusion

This condition first recognized nearly a century ago, is uncommon, though not excessively so. For a long time it was merely a postmortem finding, but fortyodd years ago, Elliot was the first to record a successful intervention, the fourth attempt at surgical therapy. A few recoveries from simple exploration have been reported, but about half have been resected as in my case. The bowel was reunited by the Murphy button, and the convalescence was gratifyingly “smooth.”