Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those 7,000, 100 boys were chosen as members of the Bremen Boys' Club, BBC for short. Two original members, Martin Girschner, 16, now temporary president, and Guenther Hoist, 15, now temporary vice president, helped with selections. Applicants were asked to fill out forms. On the basis of these forms and the way in which questions were answered, the selections were made. Membership had to be limited, but there are now about 20 more than the limit of 100 in the club...
...problem of providing stage scenery and backdrops for the production, an atomic fantasy, is complicated by the fact that Sanders Theatre has been chosen as the location for the play. Since the stage there has no provision for curtain drops or other scenery facilities, the designer will have to use his ingenuity...
...have read that the Student Council is undemocratic. Would it surprise you to know that 22.2 percent of the Committee to Investigate the Student Council is made up of Crimson men? Or that another 22.2 percent are adherents of the H.L.U. The membership of the investigating committee was chosen by a small percentage of the voters, for the issue then as now aroused little interest. We therefore charge first, that Student Council reform cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called a popular movement, and that its members are for the most part wheels and friends of wheels...
...basis of today's running, Mikkola said the Varsity team will be chosen for the four-way intercollegiate meet October 11, when Tufts, Holy Cross, and M.I.T., will meet the Crimson at Franklin park...
Cold Reality. But these were the exceptions. For the first half of 1946, profits in general, as gauged by 301 corporations chosen by the New York Times, were 15% under those of last year. Last May's stock prices were based on rosy hopes for big 1946 profits; last week's stock prices were based on the realization that many 1946 profits would be quite modest. The market drop was far sharper than after World War I (see chart] because the shock of disillusionment in the "postwar boom" was greater. Biggest shocker: the Pennsylvania Railroad would lose money...