Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilbur has been President of the American Medical Association, a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a member of the Pan-American Commission. "Yes-men" are not chosen for such honors. When he became President of Stanford University he made many radical changes there and formulated policies which were opposed by a large majority of the Alumni, but in spite of this opposition, he did not swerve from the lines he had chosen, and after 15 years, has convinced most of the Alumni of that University that his plans were sound, while at the same time winning for himself...
Nevertheless, the President was unquestionably thinking about a most important unsolved issue?reparations?which Coolidge-chosen though unofficial experts were even then pondering in Paris (see p. 23). As a G. O. P. formula, the President has repeated that reparations is not a U. S. problem, but never has he denied his country's large interest in finding a solution...
...most people have made up their minds one way or another about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Yet so potent is the subject that shrewd Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday has chosen it as the main theme of his latest barnstorming tour. In Elyria, Ohio, he gospel-shouted last week: "God made Adam and Eve without human agencies. So he certainly could create Jesus in a supernatural manner...
...annual convention of the I. C. 4A. in New York last Saturday, R. W. Thayer '29, manager of the Harvard track team, was elected president of the association for the coming year. At the same time R. C. Floyd '10 was chosen a member of the graduate committee handling affairs for the colleges...
...result of trials held recently, 35 men have been taken into the Freshman Instrumental Clubs, according to a statement made last night by Eustin Dearborn '32, recently appointed president of the Clubs. These men, together with the 17 Freshmen, previously chosen members of the University Instrumental Clubs, will fill positions in the Vocal, Mandolin and Banjo units of the new organization...