Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm (a notorious homosexual) and the Führer quarreled. Roehm quit the country, became military adviser to Bolivia. The Führer saw the weakness of the loosely organized, unwieldy mob of Brown Shirts and decided to form, within the Storm Troopers, a carefully chosen elite group of men to be known as the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Corps"), better known as the 55 Guards. Their primary function at first was to guard the Führer. First 55 leader was the late Julius Schreck, the Führer's adjutant and chauffeur. In the next...
Moses has chosen as the subject of his lecture "Notes on Theory and Practice in Politics." It will be the first of two lectures by Moses on contemporary problems of government; the second will be given here on Friday...
Percy Rideout, outstanding langlauf skier and jumper for two years on the Dartmouth Skiing team was chosen to be captain of the ski team next year...
...over the sudden death of 27-year-old King Ghazi I. Iraq's council of ministers announced that the next King would be Ghazi's three-year-old baby boy, Feisal II. For 14 years, until Feisal comes of age, Iraq will be ruled by a regent chosen from among royal uncles and cousins, who may easily fall prey to Iraq's Anglophobe troublemakers. How successful the British may be in educating Feisal to love England remains to be seen, but they will certainly try not to make the mistake they made in educating his father...
Catholic if somewhat cursory, Miss Hoffman's chapters on great sculpture are aided by keenly chosen illustrations. Once a worshiping student of Rodin, she speaks with equal understanding of the intense simplifications of Brancusi. But her chief theme is the craft itself. Among other things, she describes in ingratiating detail: the processes of casting in bronze, techniques and mechanisms for making enlargements from a small model, tools, tempers and techniques for working in different types of stone, an orderly scheme for scrubbing a studio...