Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School, has announced the election of officers for the coming year. These men are all members of the present Junior class of the School, having been recently elected from the highest eighth. Don Swint Greer '29, of Cambridge, was elected president. Malcolm Osborne Gibson '29, of Joplin, Missouri, was chosen vice-president, while George Alfred Sawin '29, of Edgewood, Pa., will be treasurer. The posts of corresponding and recording secretary will be filled respectively by Frank Holton Elberfeld '29, of South Boston, and Philip Ernest Nokes '29, of Lynn, while Grover Arvel Chenoweth '29, of Arlington Heights, was chosen cataloguer...
Anxiously watching the strange Rumanian drama of last week from Godstone, near London, King Mihai's ineffectual father, Prince Carol (eldest son of Dowager Queen Marie), who would be King at this moment had he not chosen to abdicate (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and live abroad with a titan-haired Jewess, Mme. Magda Lupescu. Carol, who now aspires to regain powers which he too lightly cast away, said last week: "I didn't leave my country for love of Mme. Lupescu. It's all a lie to say so.† What man would renounce a throne because...
...come from Rudolph Valentino, from Harry Houdini. A sheet of paper bearing identification marks was locked in a tin box; reporters selected a name from the telephone directory; the tin box was opened and the sheet of paper was taken out of the box with the name they had chosen scribbled...
Fortunately, Lieut.-Commander P. V. H. Weems, U. S. N., is a good-humored fellow of wit, charm and a grin. Fortunately, because he has been chosen to teach the difficult science of navigation to the one man who by reputation and instinct apparently knows plenty about it: Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
When Wilbur Glenn Voliva enthusiastically set out to prove to the world that it was flat and set upon four poles, as the Bible states, he intended to convert the thousands to his enlightened cause, not to have his chosen people converted to the cause of the thousands. Confidently he sailed to Europe with his mind stuffed full of convincing diatribes, never once considering the danger to his own well pastured sheep, safe, as he thought, in Zion City and in the confident belief in the flatness of this unbelieving world...