Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Particularly prominent was the Marion Davies, a tulip by John Scheepers. When asked why he chose this name for his work, Florist Scheepers replied: "The hours of pleasure I obtained from her film successes have more than paid for the seven years of work necessary in the creation of the new flower...
...known as "pacifists" commonly assume that the answer two first question his "Yes". As a matter of last, while most of America, and probably, of England, take this for granted, Europe obviously does not. France for example, would prefer eternal war and consequent annihilation to German encroachment. Belgium chose certain rain rather than what the world would have considered disgrace. When one assumes that the world desires peace above everything else, one does so for the academic purpose of limiting the argument...
...required decrees for their accomplishment. Finally at 7 o'clock, facing a talked-out and hungry Senate, he rose and announced his intention of delivering a two-hour speech. He offered his hearers the choice of submitting to it then, or of waiting until after dinner. The Senate chose to dine, and returned in a mellower frame of mind...
...Blanchard '04 of Cambridge on petition of V. N. Bates '19 of Brookline, which provided for a parkway extending from Fenway near the Art Museum across Roxbury to Edward Everett Square, Dorchester and to be known as President Eliot Parkway. The authors of this measure, both Harvard men, chose President Eliot's 90th birthday as the most appropriate occasion for filing their petition...
...Treaty of Versailles naturally had to have some standard coin, and have thus 'been the source of several new ones. The Republic of Lavia adopted the "lat," equal to a gold French franc, or 19.3? in U. S. money. The Free State of Danzig chose the "gulden" of about equal value. Lithuania, however, in establishing its new standard coin, the "lit," fixed its value as equal to 10? in U. S. money. Poland beginning Jan. 1, 1924, introduced its new gold standard coin, the "zloty," equivalent to the gold French franc...