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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moses, who saved the Chosen People, said: "Woodrow, when you are as old as I you will not worry about democrats any more than I do about the Klu Klux Klan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...reason for football being consistently lower than the other sports, probably the best answer that can be advanced is that in football there are more men who come to college to engage in their chosen activity than in any other major sport in the College. Track men noticeably, and baseball and crew candidates to a lesser extent, are drawn from men who come to college without big reputations in their preparatory schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANALYSIS OF SCHOLASTIC RECORDS PUTS ATHLETE ABOVE STUDENT AVERAGE | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

...March 30, in Widener V, an examination will be held to determine the winner of the Ricardo Prize Scholarship, which has an annual income of $500. At that time, candidates will be called on to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves, from a list, not previously announced, in economics and political science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ricardo Prize Outlined | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

...Leadership is not muddling or meddling. I think of the great, constructive plans of Mr. Herbert Hoover, whom the prospering Americans have chosen as their President. . . . Right now the Liberal Party is ready with plans which will reduce the terrible numbers of the workless in the course of a single year, to normal proportions, and when completed will enrich the nation and equip it to compete successfully with business rivals." Though slightly vague as to these plans, which seemed to hinge upon employing the jobless in road building and on glamorous public works, Mr. Lloyd George made the ringing assertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Election | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...condemned. He will suppose, courteously, that the man knows what he is doing. However should the man inquire if the bridge be safe, the Buddhist will tell him. Similarly Buddhists do not generally interfere with other people's religion nor try to lead them from paths they have chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buddhist Institute | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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