Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduates turned out for the meeting, was a vote taken. By a two to one ratio, the conferees approved a proposal that the Student council "have the power to elect three members to the Council by a two-thirds vote of the whole council, such men to be chosen for their outstanding ability, special skills, or particular knowledge complementary to the functioning of the Council...
...congratulate you; it was a well-chosen word, aptly used. For my back bristles, a rubbing with ashes on a cornshuck...
Rumanian-born Philippe Guecht, 40, who believed that "war was the only road to peace": "I have chosen Soviet citizenship . . . and [hope] to find work as a show producer. I believe that Russia is the only country where liberty and art really exist...
...turn of the 19th Century, conversational ease had become a "hallmark of the elite." Tasteful topics must be chosen, e.g.: "The conversation may gradually center on the Egyptian obelisk, or the Tower of London." Some guides printed "model conversations." Example...
...test, known as the Kuder Preference Record, was given near for the first time to a large body of students for purely experimental purposes, and its results will be examined for possible bearing on the fields of concentration chosen by incoming men. Stressing the danger that its results may be overestimated by the freshmen who took it, Henry S. Dyer '27, Director of the Office of Tests, pointed out that the test was given primarily to obtain data for future work, and that its importance to the individual student is only incidental at this time. Rusults of the test will...