Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privileged to do in this trial of their judgment. For, to choose but one from a notable array of the great, has not the one and only Babe Ruth rendered his verdict in just such a test? The name of an equally famous athlete who is rumored to have chosen wrongly has not been as widely circulated; nevertheless his example may serve to comfort any similar unfortunates in today's sweep-stakes. But no loyal son of a college whose team has defeated Yale's in a competitive examination can doubt that when the smokes of battle have cleared away...
...Revived strong-arm squad-large, gruff officers specially chosen to nightstick gangsters. Two strong-arm squads for Manhattan, one for each of the other boroughs...
...Cornelius Jr. is scarcely famed in Paris-having chosen California as his place to toil and go bankrupt publishing tabloid news organs. Therefore announcements that General Cornelius Vanderbilt had made available $2,257,000 to pay the California tabloid creditors (TIME, Dec. 31), were of relatively slight interest to such typical Paris tycoons as M. Henri Letellier, publisher of the world's third largest newspaper, Le Journal. It was M. Letellier who employed, as his confidential and executive secretary until recently, the cherubic Erskine Gwynne. But tout Paris took keen interest, last week, at reports that Nephew Gwynne...
Quite seriously: "I'm going to the World as managing editor. A managing editor should be impartial. I imagine I was chosen for the job because I know newspaper work...
There is no absolute whereby to measure the rise and fall of the level of college journalism, if any. Periodically there arises the question of whither is the undergraduate newspaper going; the medium of judgment chosen by observers is the editorial pages of college papers. The latest criticism, from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, is an epitome of all that has been said on the subject lately. It asserts that college editors fail to harmonize the tone of their editorial columns with the responsibility that is theirs by virtue of their place as representatives of the college in print. Cynicism, flippancy...