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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief rivals are Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to Hollywood gossips, they are infiltrating each other's lots with company spies disguised as extras. Following standard practice, Paramount has already surmounted the first production hurdle: picking and discarding various titles. The chosen one: Top Secret. It is no top secret that the picture will be masterminded by cinema wizard Hal Wallis (Casablanca, Love Letters), whose signature is pace and palaver. Estimated cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Secret | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...people, took over the throne, ruled Israel in her march from primitivism to the brink of decadence, and declined among the dissensions, rapes, assassinations, and revolutionary plots of his children, then sought and found his God at last-is one of mankind's archetypical legends. Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel. In this task she suffers from a serious handicap: as a novelist, she is not very adventurous; as a psychologist, not very interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psalmist Psychologized | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

About 300 first-term Freshmen will be ineligible to vote or hold office. Representatives of men who have just entered the College will be chosen at a later date after students have become better acquainted. The main function of the committee will be to make arrangements for the Freshman Jubilee, to be held the last week in April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '49 Goes To Polls March 7 To Pick Leaders | 2/26/1946 | See Source »

Though an invitation will not be officially forthcoming from the N. C. A. A. until after the quintet has finished its season against a weak New Hampshire squad next Saturday, there is now little doubt as to who will be chosen. Bill Bingham, director of Athletics, has already obtained permission from the Athletic Committee for the Harvard team to accept an offer to appear in New York as the New England representative. "Such participation is considered to be merely an extension of the regular playing season, and not a post-season contest like football bowl games," he explained...

Author: By Monroe S. Singer, | Title: Quintet's Wins Over Quonset and BU Virtually Clinch Bid to NCAA Meet | 2/26/1946 | See Source »

Eight teams will be chosen to appear in the national playoff games. The four Eastern squads will battle it out in New York on Thursday and Saturday, March 21 and 23. Then the Eastern finalists will face the Western champion, chosen from playoffs held at the same time in Kansas City, in the final round on Tuesday, March...

Author: By Monroe S. Singer, | Title: Quintet's Wins Over Quonset and BU Virtually Clinch Bid to NCAA Meet | 2/26/1946 | See Source »

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