Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates, chosen from the 44 men who participated in the trials on March 5 and 7, will appear tonight in the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize Speaking Contest, which will be held in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock...
...were chosen after yesterday's practice session in the new cage, where the team has been working out because of inclement weather. Nineteen men in all, six of them being pitchers, were retained from the squad of 40. These men, with perhaps a few additions, will compose the University squad for the entire season...
...authors (there are three of them) have chosen a splendid background for drama. They tell their story in the "wings" of a rodeo that has brought its troupe of cowboys and cowgirls into Chicago for a week. There is plenty of color here and an opportunity to deal with the elemental emotions of simple folk. The idea of a clash between these softhearted, hard-boiled plainsmen and the unscrupulous racketeers of the second city of the land is excellent. The elaborations and the compromises are what hurt...
Excepting only the Unknown Soldier, the last hero to lie beneath the Arc de Triomphe up to last week was Victor Hugo, 43 years ago. The emotion of Frenchmen was keyed to such a pitch that even the official tellers of the Chamber of Deputies−men chosen for no other quality than their incorruptible honor−majestically lied when the Communist Deputies voted against a bill granting $12,000 to defray the expenses of the funeral. Though every Communist who had thus voted rose and blatantly proclaimed the fact, the official count showed that the bill had passed unanimously...
Candidates will be expected to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves from a list, not previously announced of subjects dealing with economics and political science...