Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each relic nestled in a case of gold, each case was enclosed in a sturdy wooden box, and Tiffany & Co. of Manhattan was the firm which was chosen to envelop the button, hair, braid and ring in suitable magnificence. Last week Japanese were pleased & honored to receive these four gifts, be cause all are authentic mementoes of intrepid U. S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858), who opened up Japan to Occidental influence...
...House of Peers in 1890, and in 1903 succeeded his brother-in-law as President. For two decades and a half he has held that post with a royal aloofness from party squabbles, yet with an extraordinary democracy in private life. Such is his prestige that he was chosen without demur or question to represent Japan at the vital Washington Conference...
...dressed in silks and at his side a slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle through the body. The 100 doctors wore full dress and all their decorations; they were received at Buckingham Palace by England...
Paul Birdsall '21, of Cambridge, has been elected marshal of those receiving the degree of Ph. D. at commencement time this year, and Allen Bliss of West Brattleboro, Vermont, has been chosen as marshal for those receiving A. M. degrees, it was announced in the office of the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences yesterday...
...Laski expresses the incredulity of an Englishman that so great a Republic as that of the United States should allow its President, and to an even greater extent its Vice-President, to be chosen by the essentially haphazard methods actually employed. The restraints placed on American political leaders which in turn lead to comparative political inaction have caused a general apathy toward political matters in the American public which combined with the great prosperity of American life is sufficient to secure passive acceptance of existing governmental institutions...