Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned woman and six learned men* had chosen this Plan from 58 submitted to them by Publisher Hearst's contest editors. The 58 had been weeded from a field of 71,248 plans ranging from a jokester's one word, "Water," to a verbosifier's screed of 50,000 words...
...signers of the Tacna-Arica boundary agreement, which ended South America's 46-year-old sideache (TIME, May 27), were chosen last week as subjects for the first picture to be sent by direct air mail from Peru...
...chief failure so far in the Mexican system has been in the matter of local government. The people frequently regard the local officials as unfairly chosen, which results in a nation-wide political inertia...
Five times has the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania chosen a bishop coadjutor to assist and eventually succeed Pennsylvania's Bishop Thomas James Garland (TIME, May 20). Five times have the chosen refused to accept the position...
...Henry Asquith and many another statesman who rose under Her late Majesty Victoria. The finality of royal assent was given in England, last fortnight, to a bill providing for the division of the U. S. into eight districts of six states from which annually four Rhodes scholars will be chosen. The old method allotted wo scholarships (once every three years) 10 every state (TIME, April...