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Word: chose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trojans were still Pacific Coast Conference champions. To them fell the honor of representing the West in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses in the famed Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. To them also went the privilege of picking their eastern opponent. They took thought, chose the undefeated Pittsburghers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rose Tournament | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...quietest period in Japan's fiscal year is the winter months between the old and new silk cocoon crops.- Bearing well in mind fragile, brown, papery cocoons. Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye last week chose Jan. 11, 1930 as the date for putting Japan's currency {yen) back on a stabilized gold basis. The stabilization credits of $25,000,000 each in favor of the Imperial Government were opened at New York and London las! week by J. P. Morgan & Co. with U. S. and British associates. That Japan can stabilize on so small a credit-Britain required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Gold between Cocoons | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally chose Willis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio's Fourth | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Indianapolis. The Republican party, hard-ridden by the Ku Klux Klan, stumbled and fell in defeat as for the first time in 16 years the city chose a Democratic mayor, Reginald Sullivan. In similar disrepute was the Klan-Republican alliance in many another Indiana municipality, including Senator James Eli Watson's own Rushville where Republicans were turned out, Democrats turned into office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vote Castings | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Osceola, Ind., George Gulp and Harold Kirkpatrick each got 34 votes for town clerk & treasurer. They called upon a pair of dice to decide the will of the people. The dice chose Gulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vote Castings | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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