Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some who heard Mr. Gerard last week may have wondered why he chose to utter even the most guarded praise of Wilhelm, who, in 1914-18, was introduced to the U. S. as a rat-faced youth, leering synthesis of cowardice and cruelty. They forgot that Ambassador Gerard looked occasionally for several years upon the actual face of Crown Prince Wilhelm. What does he look like anyway...
...with which it has been received. The New York Tribune was one of the few Republican papers to comment on Haines' return to grace. It stated quite baldly that the President had to make the choice between incompetence and the loss of support of the Anti-Saloon League. He chose incompetence. Possible votes twenty months from now, then, are of more importance than present and effective administration of government. And no one seems to care a great deal perhaps because no one will cavil at ineffective dry administration...
...that the U. S. Government chose 1909 as the year in which to banish Indian heads from pennies and replace them with the head of Lincoln...
...famed New England poet's son who, at 86, has the keenest and busiest mind in the Supreme Court. "Work keeps me young," said Justice Holmes. "If I should quit, I would die." It has been wisely said that Plato dreamed of such men as this when he chose scholars and philosophers, tried by the world and by age, to govern his ideal Republic...
After hearing these and sundry other speeches, after visiting Cleveland hospitals and clinics, the American College of Physicians selected New Orleans for the 1928 meeting; chose Dr. Charles Martin of Montreal to be president-elect. Dr. Frank Smithies of Chicago became president for this year...