Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers are chosen by the heads of their various departments to study the business problems involved in the tremendous purchases incidental to military operations, and are studying the broad principles of business administration rather than the details of any particular civilian industry. The purpose of the work being done by these officers, many of whom have already attained the rank of major, is to establish a contact with modern civilian business methods which the officers find indispensible, but cannot obtain by participation in civilian business firms...
With laconic precision, the King declared the new Assembly open. The Dictator thanked the King for attending the opening so soon after his arrival from a visit to Morocco, and immediately quitted the building. Senor Jose Maria Yanguas, onetime Secretary of State, was chosen President of the Assembly and made the opening speech, in which, as he was bound to, he lauded Dictator de Rivera...
...only disharmonious note was sounded by the announcement that the Duchess Parcent and the Countess San Luis, women delegates chosen by General de Rivera, had resigned half an hour before the session began...
...Massachusetts & New Jersey. His career as schoolboy differed little from that of any other intelligent schoolboy except that at an early age Author Durant received an invitation from a Roman Catholic Priest: "You must study more, and pray more, and always bear in mind that the church has chosen you to be one of our servants. . . ." For some years Jack (as Author Durant has chosen to call himself in these pages) accepts the invitation to be a priest if he does not always follow the advice which accompanied it. Then after being a reporter, a teacher, a factory worker...
...English speakers in Symphony Hall on October 28, according to an announcement of the debating coaches following the trials last night. Of these only three will speak, but all six will work on the case up to the time of the debate, and the speakers will not be chosen until two days before the team meets its English opponents. The coaches state that this method will develop a stronger case by having more men at work upon it, and will compel each of the six men to exert his best efforts until the case is ready to be presented...