Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Career. Although Stanley Baldwin's unique strength and value as Prime Minister are thus demonstrable, there remains the mystery of how he reached high office almost at a single bound. When he was first chosen Prime Minister in 1923, the New Statesman exclaimed: "Not half the electors of Great Britain, we suppose, had ever heard his name until this week...
...Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman, a Cabinet member, speaking, he said, simply in behalf of "the man in the pew." Premier Baldwin himself supported Mr. Bridgeman, pointing out that the proposed revision was a compromise between high and low church opinion. He warned that to deny the church her carefully chosen ground of compromise would be to weaken her authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment? I believe that I am right in thinking that the spirit...
...seen whether the despotic machine of Stalin can. Kicked out, they yet believe that alone are the chosen vessels in which reposes the spirit of Lenin - in Russia Lenin is, in sober truth, a God. In his name Trotsky will certainly plot and and perhaps conquer. After all "Lenin & Trotsky" is a couplet revered by millions to whom "Lenin & Stalin" rings unfamiliar, hollow strange...
...their college newspapers, where, in most cases, their names had appeared before. Each one was, by definition, a male citizen of the U. S., over 19 and under 25 years old, above sophomore standing in some recognized, degree-granting U. S. college or university. In addition each had been chosen to go to Oxford, on the money willed for this purpose by famed Diamond-miner Cecil Rhodes, because he had shown himself excellent in all or some of three qualities: a) character, b) scholarship, c) athletic prowess. Here the necessary likenesses ended. But, unless this 32 is unlike any that...
...result of the recent inter-class squash tournament three class squads have been chosen from which the regular class teams will be picked after a ladder tourney has been played off to determine who the-first seven in each squad will...