Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economics was the field chosen for specialization by a majority of the applicants, numbering 98, closely followed by Government with 96. Next in order are History, with 43; English, 36; Sociology, 13; and Science and Music, with 5 each. The subjects of psychology, fine arts, law, drama, philosophy, philology, and business management were also on the applications...
...seems wholly unfitting in presenting so curt and terse a description of a man whose whole life was devoted and sacrificed to the happiness and welfare of young boys, that TIME should attempt to destroy with one malicious and ill-chosen word the work and efforts of a lifetime of such an outstanding public servant, both as friend and clergyman...
Although the announcement was made before the new group had even chosen a name, its working plans were fairly definite. Each man has promised a new play for next season. (First production will be a play about Abraham Lincoln by Sherwood.) Each is pledged to put $10,000 into a common fund. Each will get regulation stage and movie royalties, share the general profit & loss of production...
...Twentieth Century-Fox Producer Darryl F. Zanuck for consistently high quality in 1937 production went the newest & biggest award, an effeminate-looking bust of the late young M-G-M producer, Irving G. Thalberg; to meritorious others, other Oscars, plaques, scrolls. In other years winners were chosen by vote of the Academy members (less than 1,000). This year the chief ones were elected in a poll of 15,000 actors, directors, writers, other eligible Hollywood craftsmen...
...style of the building is to be strictly classical, rectangular in design, and with four stories and Corinthian pilasters on the facade. The structure is to be built of granite, which was chosen for its extreme durability. Except for University Hall, this will be the only building in which red brick has not been the structural material...