Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale program: the ancient world (requirement to be met by a course in ancient lanuage, history, philosophy, or art), systematic thinking (requirement to be met by a course in mathematics, logic, or linguistics), and the interdependence of knowledge, a rather indefinite--category for which courses have not yet been chosen...
...they plumped for the old constitution (which no one expects), the assembly would become the new Chamber of Deputies, and the Senate would be chosen, as before, by deputies and regional councillors. If the people voted for a new constitution, the delegates would sit for seven months as a constituent assembly, i.e., a constitution-drafting body. De Gaulle and his Cabinet would continue to run France, "consulting" the assembly only on such matters as budgets and treaties...
Britain's tall, dictatorial Lord Swinton, Civil Aviation Minister, suggested, in line with Britain's white paper (TIME, March 26), that traffic within the Empire be split equally between Britain's Chosen Instrument, the British Overseas Airways Corp., and Commonwealth air lines...
Expediter Bushong promptly rallied his people and submitted to volunteers what is probably the war's shortest, most-to-the-point . questionnaire: "Who are you? What can you do?" He picked 100 (preachers, teachers, students, and a shrewdly chosen handful of veteran dirt farmers) as herders...
...these stories, of course, are about things which happened long ago and far away from Good Neighbor Peru (regarded as one of the South American nations most friendly to the U.S.). The tales were chosen by the author and screened by the translator to accent the quaint and unusual. Yet Ricardo Palma, if he has a U.S. counterpart, was his country's Washington Irving. His tales merely serve to accent the vastly different heritages of two Western Hemisphere nations. His own countrymen relish Palma's brigands and cutthroats because they are heirs to the tradition that life...