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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was not a coincidence, President Coolidge, seeing what the World and Senator Walsh were doing had demanded from his Attorney General immediate delivery of the opinion he had requested 224 days before. If it was obvious that the World and Senator Walsh had chosen a politically important moment to force the issue, it seemed equally obvious that Attorney General Sargent had meant to delay his unfortunate news until after Election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Villains? Goat? | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...four men chosen for the New Haven debate were selected from 20 candidates after trials which were conducted last week. It has not yet been decided as to which of these three will be the speakers and which one the alternate, a decision which will, in all probability be announced Friday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR MEN CHOSEN FOR YALE DEBATE | 10/24/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard. Walking guard up and down a gravel path at 3 o'clock on a summer's morning has sometimes caused us to wonder why we chose the military academy to a civilian institution. Bells ringing and bugles blowing with unceasing regularity make us sometimes wish that we had chosen the "dorms" of John Harvard to the barracks of West Point. Studying five or six hours a day for recitations makes us wish that we had the lecture courses of Harvard to attend. Leading the almost-convent-like existence of Cadets, we sometimes with that we, too, had the careless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DUTY, HONOR COUNTRY" DRAWS MEN TO CORPS AND ATTRACTION EVER REMAINS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...always been made from its top by the captain of the preceding year. Since I have been here. I have never seen a defeated team drawn up the hill. Now Navy Games are a thing of the past, for a time at least, and some other game must be chosen for the final chapter. I hope that I shall finish my course with my personal tradition unbroken; never to have seen an Army team drawn up the hill after a final defeat. And with all due respect to dear old Harvard. I hope there are no intermediate defeats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition at West Point Places the Plebe Lower Socially Than the Dust He Grovels In | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...debating team is to be coached by E. M. Rowe 21, Mr. Rowe coached the Harvard team last year which won the Eastern intercollegiate championship. The first tryouts are to be held on Wednesday in the New Lecture Hall at 4 o'clock. There are no definitely chosen memebers of the team as yet. This debate is being run under the auspices of the Harvard Debating Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND YALE WILL DISPUTE OVER AL SMITH | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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