Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza chose wisely for his first-night opera. L'Amore is short. It could begin late that Manhattan's society folk might entertain leisurely at dinner. It could have long intermissions that they might take account of their neighbors' stock. It was over early that they might have their parties afterward...
...modern marathon, moves in cycles. The time has now come for a resuscitation of long distance running; the best long distance runner in the world is this jolly timid Algerian, who cannot speak a word of English and shakes hands in a complicated. North African fashion. Promoter Pickens chose him to make the marathon famous again...
...keep the vote from being practically unanimous, for the choice of Joe Forecast in those Open Spaces where his word is law, I will withhold my prediction until Tuesday morning. I aim only to predict, not to influence public opinion. Not that I couldn't influence it, if I chose, and occasionally have...
Ironic, too, was a story in the Atlanta Constitution about diverticulosis published the very day Strong died. An ignorant reporter chose to be lengthily flippant in describing the contours of intestinal abscesses as shown on X-ray plates...
...Jewish half gave Moses dispassionate insight into Hebrew nature-thus he chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...