Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME did not "sleuth." The repository chosen by Governor Smith for his 50 cents was reported casually by many a daily newspaper. But even if it had not been so reported, TIME would not have hesitated to refer to so well-known a fact as Governor Smith's Roman Catholicism?a fact about which he, at least, is not hypersensitive...
...everyone knows, the present Turkish frontier, inclosing part of Armenia was recognized by the Lausanne treaty, which the U. S. Senate has refused to ratify (TIME, Jan. 31). Therefore onetime Statesman Gerard, now chairman of the American Committee Opposed to the Lausanne treaty, was only performing his chosen duty, last week, when he flayed Moukhtar Bey-but Mr. Gerard chose also to rebuke the U. S. State Department...
...week, the Philharmonic Orchestra, under Dr. Howard Hanson of the Eastman School of Music, submitted to a large audience and a jury of six, four manuscript orchestral works of U. S. composers. Pageant of P. T. Barnum by Douglas Moore and Darker America by William Grant Still (Negro) were chosen for publication...
Last week the Baptist association announced that it would strike back, that speakers had been chosen to stand before Dr. Norris' chosen weapon, the microphone, and say a few words about Dr. Norris. The topic for one broadcast was to be NORRISISM AND ITS FRUITS, for another NORRISISM AND ITS MISREPRESENTATIONS. Texas radio batteries were charged and tested as Dr. Norris announced that he would send forth full replies via ether...
...Significance. The author has chosen a most unlikely plot for his novel and accomplished a truly rare job. It is an important piece of literature, imaginative, logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity...