Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gesture of Pontius Pilate while at the same time continuing at the helm of France. Briefly he "washed his hands" by declaring that the Chamber must decide whether it wanted the Doumer plan or the Cartel plan. At the same time he blazoned abroad that whichever plan the Chamber chose, he would not consider its vote as implying either "confidence" or "lack of confidence" in the Government but merely as an indication of "preference." Politicians were aghast at this high handed flouting of the precedent which would ordinarily demand the resignation of the Briand Cabinet upon the rejection...
...have taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade pupils, picked at random, to be assembled at desks on the stage of Fullerton Hall at Chicago's Art Institute. He brought together 500 school principals and invited citizens to be audience for the exercises. He chose seven "appraisers" to sit in judgment. He prevailed on a group "who admit themselves to be of average intelligence" to act as examiners and give tests to the 40 "sample" pupils. Each test was conducted by "a citizen with practical knowledge of the subject under consideration." One Elmer Stevens examined...
...however sunken in estate, go undefended at his trial by law. The judge told the prisoner to look about and choose whom he would from the gathering of barristers that lounged there in genteel boredom waiting for their clients' names to be read off. Whom he chose would have to serve him, willy-nilly...
...situation and the necessity of including all great powers in the international union. Asiatic powers which fought on the side of the Allied victors are naturally included in the scheme and many other small Eastern principalities have been offered the opportunity to join the League if they so chose...
...Crimson's chief advantage lies in their strong reserve material, the second string forwards of Harvard being only slightly less potent than Coach Bigelow's starters. There is little to chose between the Team A forwards, Chase, Gross, and Hamlen, and their relief's, Scott, Harding, and Zarakov...