Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provides a living for the greatest single group, with 80 members of the class practicing it. Finance comes next with 78, teaching 59, manufacturing and medicine 55 each, morcantile business 50, engineering 87, advertising 20. The ministry, which Harvard was founded to train, has been chosen by only seven members...
Last month, in the presence of King Leopold III, a solemn ceremony at the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique inaugurated the second Concours Ysaÿe. This time not violinists but pianists were to vie for honors.*From 22 nations came nearly 100 eager candidates, aged 15 to 30, chosen in most cases by national competition. Largest contingents were from England (13), Germany (12), Italy (12), France (n). Australia, China and Uruguay each sent one. The U. S. was meagrely represented by three pianists who happened to be in Europe. Only U. S. entry with any reputation...
Preliminaries consisted of two rounds held in the Concert Hall of the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique. First round: 1) a major composition by Johann Sebastian Bach; 2) Scarlatti's Sonata No. 461 in D Major; 3) a sonata chosen by the candidate. When the first round was over, twelve nations, including the U. S., had bitten the dust. The judges were wiping their foreheads, professional critics were well wilted. But stately, sad-eyed Queen Elisabeth, in her royal box, had listened unflinchingly to 88 consecutive performances of Scarlatti's Sonata. Among the 19 survivors of Round...
...Last week, resourceful Robert Young made inroads into two other operating companies. He himself was chosen chairman of New York. Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate); and one of his close associates, Cleveland Shipping Tycoon George A. Tomlinson, was elected chairman of 1'ere Marquette...
...absence of tomorrow's paper, it may be said at this time that the University is breaking precedent in showing a foreign language picture in its Thursday-through-Sunday run. And a finer picture could scarcely have been chosen than the French "Mayerling...