Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...butchery is Mme. Jakubowska's greatest achievement. A Nazi officer killing a child whistles unconcernedly throughout; another SS man calmly plays the gramophone while his henchmen single their victim's flesh with hot pokers. Probably most effective and certainly most pathetic are the scenes showing the girl who was chosen to lead the band as it played the rhythms to which the whole camp marched; during all the thousand crimes which the Nazis committed to the tune of her music, she had to stand alone on her bandstand without flinching...
...Seven of the eight courses second year students must now take are required courses; the eighth is an elective to be chosen from five specified fields...
Last week U.C.L.A. was catching up. With little ceremony but with pronouncements befitting Southern California's civic confidence, the Los Angeles school threw open its doors to its first law students. Chosen from more than 400 applicants, the 54 pioneers will spend their first year in classrooms borrowed from U.C.L.A.'s liberal-arts school; next year, with an expected entering class of 200, they will have a $1,600,000 building of their own. Eventually, enrollment is expected...
...seminar was started three years ago by three graduate students in the University as a school of American studies for Europeans. It is sponsored by the Student Council land draws its staff entirely from Harvard, though the faculty is chosen from college and universities all over the country...
Names of 16 Labor Fellows, chosen by their unions to study here under the Trade Union Fellowship Program, were announced last night by the University. Selected on the basis of leadership and devotion to the labor movement, the men will take a series of courses for 13 weeks, financed jointly by the University and by the unions...