Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undaunted by the prospect of a fine, however, the operators struck back, hitting the ordinance with everything in the book from stupidity to unconstitutionality. Sidney Wolbarst was chosen to provoke a test case. On April 4, he returned the machine to his establishment. On April 5, he was taken to court and fined, thus precipitating a series of court cases ultimately reaching the state supreme court...
...team is a team of "iron men"; only rarely were more than six players used in any one game. Key men on the team are diminutive (5 feet, 8 inches), high-scoring (179 points) guard Ray Snyder and 6 feet, 6 inch center Jack Underman. Snyder has been chosen to play on the all-West all-Star team at New York on March 30; that team, incidentally, is coached by Ohio State's Coach Olsen...
...clans were gathering: physicists, chemists, seismologists, meteorologists, biologists, physicians, oceanographers. The chiefs of all three armed services-General Eisenhower, General Spaatz and Admiral Nimitz-were coming to their party. Ships of all types were loading in U.S. ports, or were already headed for the Marshall Islands, where Bikini, the chosen atoll, awaited Crossroads...
...great day itself will be chosen by Colonel B. G. Holzman, a meteorologist. For proper observation, there should be no overcast. But the Colonel's greatest worry will be the mighty cloud of radioactive gases and particles which will rise like a thunderhead above the explosion. From it may fall a deadly sprinkle, and the Colonel's job is to see that it falls on empty ocean...
...Freshmen Class Committee was elected yesterday when 320 of approximately 650 eligible members of the Class of '49 went to the polls at the various House dining hall ballot boxes. Primarily chosen to make arrangements for the annual Freshman Jubilee to be held during April or May, the new committee will hold its first meeting Monday evening at 7 o'clock in the council room of Phillips Brooks House...