Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chosen Mr. WPA Worker was earnest, well-spoken Clyde Brown of Colfax, Iowa, who kept eight children on $44 a month until he was laid off a road project last fortnight...
Each million-dollar laboratory will employ about 200 workers on research projects. The Department has already announced Civil Service examinations for 25 chemists to serve as project leaders. Sites were chosen, the Secretary tactfully explained, near other scientific and industrial experimenters in order to provide a "stimulus to creative thinking." Deadline for starting work on all four projects: end of this fiscal year (June 30 next...
...mighty Yangtze River a strange procession last week inched its way westward. Strung out for miles along the cliffs, with the river swirling over the rapids hundreds of feet below, 7,000 coolies pulled 7,000 jinrikishas, part of a stream of thousands of refugees who had chosen to flee Hankow rather than live under Japanese rule. Piled inside the tottering rikishas were all the manhole covers, sewer gratings and radiators the Chinese could gather before the Japanese captured the city on October 26. The destination of this scrap-iron convoy is Chungking, China's new capital 500 miles...
After attending a debutante party and getting to bed at 4 a. m., 20-year-old Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., grandson of the late President, heard that he had been chosen a Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. The scholarship board called him one of the most unusual students ever to win a scholarship. Scholar Roosevelt is completing the regular four-year course at Harvard in three years, reads 13 languages (English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Icelandic, German, Gaelic, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Russian, Middle High German...
Aboard the luxurious 22-passenger Imperial Airways liner Frobisher, speeding from Paris to Croydon Airport one evening last week, were a group of travelers that might have been chosen by a cinema director. They numbered 13. Main characters were a sophisticated Manhattan night-club songstress, an aloof British movie actress, an equerry to the Duke of Gloucester, a fun-loving mademoiselle from Paris, a Connecticut Yankee. There were also three solid businessmen, extras...