Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...severe critic, but he was just. He was the outstanding exponent of freedom as contrasted with hampering restrictions in all educational endeavor. His wholehearted devotion to the service of education--a service which he deliberately chose early in life was conspicuously evident throughout his career; and for nearly fifty years he was the most influential educational leader in America...
...crews made up of graduate students and a few College officers, and in 1858 took part in a regatta in the first shell ever to appear on the Charles. The choice of crimson as the Harvard color arose out of the fact that Mr. Eliot and a fellow oarsman chose red silk handkerchiefs as the color for the Harvard crew in that regatta. He was doing full College work during this rowing period, besides superintending the construction of Appleton Chapel and a house of his own, which he occupied next fall on his marriage to Miss Ellen Derby Peabody...
...withstand Author Allen's affecting periods. The world is now thought to be safe for democracy of the sexes, yet there is more than one reading for the tag in Critic Ernest Boyd's learned introduction: Plus ca change, plus c'est la méme chose...
...entered the church ; the people of Tours chose him as their Bishop; he is the patron saint of cordiality, merry meetings and reformed drunkards...
Shrewd, the councilors of the now diseased Emperor chose as his wife Princess Sadako of the house of Kujo, a family celebrated for its prodigious vitality and proliferousness. She, a sturdy Empress, has deserved well of Nippon...