Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the tryouts held yesterday afternoon, the debating squad has been cut to 14 men. From these men, following the trials to be held tomorrow, eight will be selected, and on Monday, the four speakers will be chosen, two for the affirmative team, and two for the negative...
...teams will represent the University in the triangular debate with Brown and Wesleyan on December 10. The four men not chosen will be the alternates for the team...
...Congress will not have adjourned-thanks to Democratic strategy-before the G. O. P. convention meets. Cleveland and Philadelphia moreover were both unembarrassed by "native sons." It is considered bad political form to nominate a man in his own state. The possibility of Herbert C. Hoover's being chosen counted against San Francisco for this reason. In Pennsylvania, the only native son who might loom was Andrew Mellon, but he was not likely to choose to loom. In Ohio, Senator Frank Willis and Speaker Nicholas Longworth are favorite sons but presidential waifs. Added together and multiplied by five they...
Meanwhile the College of Ulemas was deliberating on the choice of a successor, the rule of primogeniture not being necessarily observed. There were three candidates, all sons of the late Sultan. The youngest, a boy of 14, was finally chosen: Mulai Mohammed Hamada...
...music at New York University and conductor of the New York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will select three of the most able violinists in the Graduate School and train them himself. An appropriation has been made for publishing worthy works...