Word: chosen
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Sophomore, Junior, and Senior teams of seven men each will be chosen from the men who make the best showing in each class. The Freshman team has already been picked, and additions will be made to the first year squad, as well as to the University squad, from the players advancing to the closing rounds of the spring tournament now in progress. Men who have been eliminated in this tournament are eligible to compete in the trials for class teams...
Governor Small is also her enemy, her chosen enemy. Long ago she promised to overthrow him if no man could be found to do it. Yet in this primary, Small quietly helped her, figuring she would strengthen the Republican ticket he hoped to head next autumn. Mayor Thompson helped, too. Mrs. McCormick let them help. She learned party regularity long ago from her father, the late, sapient Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio. And the law of party regularity is the law of the jungle: when the pack can help you hunt, do not be squeamish about the pack...
France goes to the polls, this week, to elect the 14th Chamber of Deputies of her present Third Republic. As happened in 1924, when the 13th Chamber was chosen, the Prime Minister who now faces the country is again M. Raymond Poincaré, 67, brisk, snowy haired, charming of manner, firm of mind, sagacious. Last time this paladin of politics lost the election (1924) and went out of power for two years. Then the collapse of the franc resulted in his being recalled to the Prime Ministry to restore the shattered finances of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). That task...
...teams of three men with an alternate for each, will be chosen, Candidates should prepare five-minute speeches on either side of the question: "Resolved. That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life...
...order to obviate the danger of excessive cramming and to prevent pre-examination nervousness Harvard has decided not to announce the names of the ten English students chosen to compete with Yale next week until after the competitive examinations have been taken. The avowed purposes of this decision are important but by no means include the only benefits which should accrue from...