Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prod for the many procrastinating Seniors who wait until their last few weeks at the College before recognizing the problem of finding a vocation or finding a wedge into their chosen field, next week the year-old Office of Student Placement will poll the 928 students scheduled to graduate in February and June...
...choose it as a permanent site. Nourished in the bosom of an urban community, the New York officials believed, the U.N. would find 350 acres enough. ¶Since the U.N. will remain in the New York area for at least four or five years, whatever permanent site is finally chosen, Russia's Andrei Gromyko leased a five-story apartment building, ancient but refurbished, on West 88th Street, in a rather dowdy neighborhood. A woman, who probably remembered a cloak-&-dagger film called The House on 92nd Street (four blocks north), expressed audible worry lest the Russians fabricate atomic bombs...
...Execution Night in Nürnberg, and in the spacious second-floor pressroom at the courthouse, the air was heavy with tension and tobacco smoke. Eight newsmen, chosen by lot, had gone to see the war criminals die. To kill time, the 60-odd correspondents who were left behind paced the floor restlessly, watched each other with guarded eyes, plotted how they might scoop the pool. The minutes and hours ticked by. Around the world, they knew, deadlines were coming & going, while editors stood impatiently over teletypes...
...small hours lengthened, A. P. and U.P., badgered by their home offices, put out their own incautious flashes hanging all eleven Nazis, but quickly killed the flashes. The chosen eight newsmen who were in at the deaths knew about Göring - but the Allied Control Commission kept them incommunicado. It was three and a half hours after the final hanging before puffing Colonel Burton C. Andrus, prison commandant, shamefacedly told reporters outside - and the world - that Göring had cheated the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). It had been a memorable, unhappy night for everybody - including those who lived through...
Merle Fainsed, chairman of the Government Department, was elected to bead the permanent nine-man committee. Other members of the faculty chosen as members were Seymour E. Harris '20. associate professor of Economics, Donald C. NcKay, chairman of the committee on Regional Studies, and Talcott Parsons, chairman of the Department of Social Relations...