Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Election. To oppose the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. Lapsley A. McAfee of Berkeley, Calif., the Moderates chose a man possessed of three extraordinarily varied qualifications: a compelling, genial personality; an indorsement (last year) from the late Fundamentalist William J. Bryan; and a high administrative record in a big position. He is Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, bald Bismarckian lately retired president of Ohio State University. When Dr. Macartney tried to reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator...
...ability. He finds himself in a huge room full of noise and men, restlessness and work--this later in a marked degree. He sees a cross section of life and a set of values that will remain the same for him always in considerable contradiction, in many cases to chose rather glittering and dubious values of college life. He sees leafers and drudges, brilliance and dullness grains and ordinary achievement. All about him he notices and intimate group, thinking sympathetically, with much to accomplish. He is given a tiny space in the great room where he will work for several...
...Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. assembled last week at Washington (see p. 25) for its 14th annual meeting. The meeting endured four days. More than 30 speakers were on the program, but of the 30 odd, there were only three politicians whom the business men chose to address them. One of them was Herbert Hoover, who is, not excepting the more generally recognized Secretary of the Treasury, the chief economic policymaker of the Administration?the former mining engineer, brilliant in his business, but with no talent for the handshaking and good fellowship which go to make the ordinary...
...like Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of the Central Congregational Church and James Percival Huget of the great Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, who are his neighbors. They and their fellow Congregational ministers met last week in Manhattan to choose a moderator for their New York Association of Congregational churches. They chose Rev. Mr. Proctor...
...conversationally glittering that Wilde wrote. The genre is well described in a book* just published which purports to contain spirit messages direct from the author: "My plays were scarcely drama. They were more the weaving of character into a pattern; and this, with the use of language which I chose in each instance, to illustrate the surface of the human being. I did not propose to go deeply into the heart, as it is called-that organ, which is so frequently maligned, did not interest me." In this book Author Wilde also describes his entrance to London, "this huge heap...