Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Freshman class government takes its name from the Union. Each fall a group of 12 Yardlings, called the Union Committee, is chosen to administer class affairs. Up to last year, the Union Committee was replaced in the spring by elected class officers...
...university an undergraduate may, if he desires, go far in his chosen field. This is important both for the men who take advantage of the opportunity and for those who do not. If a concentrator in some field gets within hearing distance of the front line trench where knowledge is being advanced, he will have a new and exciting experience. Unless he is a recluse this new experience will be passed on to a circle of friends. Even in the first year of college the intellectual interests of a group of students are most diverse, and our method of education...
...from New Jersey she stumped the State for him. When her grandson, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped and murdered, she was a tower of strength to her family's morale, later stood guard over Grandson Jon Morrow Lindbergh. Last week, at 66, dainty-sturdy Mrs. Morrow was chosen for another man-sized job: acting president of Smith College...
...this session's record total of $1,800,000,000 already appropriated for U. S. defense. In this authorization was a $10,000,000 item for the purchase of strategic war materials; another $10,000,000 for construction of an air research laboratory, with the site to be chosen by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...
During the next four years he had various field commands and in 1906 he became orderly officer to General Joffre, then commander of the 6th Infantry Division in Paris. In 1912, when Joffre was promoted to the Supreme War Council, Gamelin was chosen as Joffre's chef de cabinet, or military secretary. During this time the French General Staff was discussing (but only discussing) the possibility of a German violation of Belgian neutrality to attack France. Gamelin made a study of it and wrote out a defense of such an attack. That was the germ of Joffre...