Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislation locating the new capital in the South on the Potomac River. President Washington picked the site?100 sq. mi. ceded by Maryland and Virginia to the U. S. at the head of tide water. He called the new Capital "The Federal City." Jefferson, Madison and the three commissioners chosen to lay out the city, referred to it from the start as "Washington...
...Wadsworth '30 was chosen to steer the first University shell in the opening race with M. I. T. on Saturday, at a meeting of the first crew in the Newell Boathouse yesterday afternoon. The selection is temporary and will be in effect only for the Tech race, since the choice is being deferred until a later date. E. L. Belisle '31 will cox the Jayvee eight...
...first time since its inauguration the annual International Physiological Congress is to be held in America this summer. The Harvard Medical School has been chosen as the place for the session...
...publicity department of "College Humor" has advised us that Dr. Henry van Dyke '73 has been "awarded the distinction" of being chosen for the Collegiate Hall of Fame in the current issue of that magazine, where his picture will be featured along with those of the most prominent co-ed on the Floating University, a Junior Prom Queen of the Middle West, an All-American football player and other notables. We can appreciate the desire of the editors to make their Hall of Fame as representative as possible; but in their choice of Dr. van Dyke they have gone outside...
...Convention opened with a few well Hoover-chosen words from Washington; then came many another greeting radioed from absent speakers in distant lands, on distant seas. During the long-distance conversations there was heard the loud popping of a champagne cork. No illegal pop was popped, however, as the report proceeded from the Berlin hotel of Ernst Filsinger, head of the Export Managers' Club of New York. Exporter Filsinger told the delegates that he was very sorry not to be in Baltimore with them. Then he made his champagne cork pop, thus testifying to the miracles of modern science...