Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a discussion of "the new social code of the student and its effects on academic life" that Mr. R. L. Duffus in the New York Times Magazine concluded his survey of the problems of American colleges. And because he chose merely to be an optimistic reporter of the surface facts, this conclusion was something of an anti-climax. The effect of club life and self support on undergraduate democracy he felt to be a dangerous subject better set forth without injudicious comment. At Harvard," he said, "it is taken for granted that a certain social status in the outside...
...signify what Baptists usually do on similar occasions, TIME chose the word "ritual." It was a poor choice...
...Alabama has recanted and admitted that he delivered his oratorical acid of a day or so ago in "fun", it appears that the laughter which swept the chamber and galleries when he sounded a conciliatory note is the just reward of one who not only played the mountebank but chose dangerous toys at the same time...
When the Democratic National Committee chose Houston, Tex., last week for its 1928 convention city, it was really the choice of a solid North, calculating to coax an uncertain South. San Francisco, Detroit and Cleveland were eager bidders. Houston won, with a small auditorium and ominous late-June climate, for three reasons...
...Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D. C., chose last week a new secretary (i.e., commander-in-chief), Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot. Technically, he is an astrophysicist. To a few laymen, he is known as the man who has spent his adulthood studying the sun. Why? Because he wishes to forecast weather, weeks or months in advance, by discovering what the gases around the sun have to do with its heat radiation; also to find some feasible means of harnessing the sun's energy in man-made machines...