Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have often envied you, men of Harvard. Walking guard up and down a gravel path at 3 o'clock on a summer's morning has sometimes caused us to wonder why we chose the military academy to a civilian institution. Bells ringing and bugles blowing with unceasing regularity make us sometimes wish that we had chosen the "dorms" of John Harvard to the barracks of West Point. Studying five or six hours a day for recitations makes us wish that we had the lecture courses of Harvard to attend. Leading the almost-convent-like existence of Cadets, we sometimes with...
...folly and danger of such a reversion to pre-war distrust need no elaboration. Even if, however, the peril to friendly understanding between two powerful nations latent in this attitude of suspicion be over-looked, it must yet be regretted that the Transcript chose to strike so discordant a note in a day of general welcome and rejoicing...
...helped America beat the Argentine was Hitchcock's Tobiano. A litle piebald horse, striped in white on the haunches and short in the neck, as quick on the ball as a kitten, Tobiano arrived at his skill on the pampas of the Argentine, working with cowherds. Here Lewis Lacey chose the pony for his present master; the American captain played Tobiano for two periods in every game of the 1927 series against England...
...Latvia a Jew named Kirstein was recently sentenced to death for murder. Against a horrible death he preferred a horrible living; he chose to be infected with leprosy and be used as an experiment at the Riga Leprosy Research Institute. Last week he was an inmate there. If cured, he will be a free...
...British Admiralty chose last week as the time to announce that it has let a ?7,750,000 ($37,665,000) contract for the completion of the British naval war base at Singapore to the firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd., of London...