Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bryan first began at the Democratic Convention this year by denouncing John W. Davis. Mr. Davis, when nominated, chose the commoner's brother for his running mate-a thing which, according to politicians, was done to appease the great Bryan. Yet the two Bryans, as allies, were singularly unable to carry the West. Willingly or unwillingly, they handed it over to the enemy...
...virtue of adventure, and as a reward. After 32 years in the service of a devoted constituency, which returned him regularly to office every two years during a career more meritorious than spectacular; after holding for six years the highest post which his colleagues could bestow-the Speakership-he chose to essay the more difficult and dubious task of winning the electorate of Massachusetts to send him to the Senate for the culmination of his career...
...when he took the name of Hsuan Tung. On Feb. 12, 1912, the Republican authorities, kind and simple-hearted enough to wait until after the sixth Imperial birthday had been celebrated, forced the Boy Emperor to abdicate. Last year, on Dec. 1, 1923, he married and chose the name of Henry for himself and Elizabeth for his wife...
...science. The contagion of Coach Haughton's magnetic personality, moreover, inspired in his teams a pluckiness and "fight" which made them undaunted in defeat as well as in victory. So successful was his system, that when he resigned, Coach Fisher, who had himself been drilled in the Haughton school, chose to continue...
...Hugo Eckener might have been businesslike, might have sailed his craft without a pause to Lakehurst. Instead?with plenty of reserve fuel? he chose to dawdle genially over New York City. The great ship was first sighted about 7:50 in the morning; commuters on the ferryboats cheered loudly; and, as the ZR-3 sailed over Manhattan to the Bronx and back, hundreds of thousands of busy New Yorkers forgot office and factory and stared skyward until their necks ached. By a curious trick of vision, explainable by the ship's tremendous length, the ZR-3 at one time seemed...