Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...service, which supplements the Office's other activities in procuring jobs for College seniors, will enable Harvard men to contact leading professional and business men in their home towns for advice and information about employment situations in their chosen fields...
...strain. "Home of the Brave" is a good motion picture. It is not, unfortunately, an excellent one, and its influence may be less than hoped for. In order to get their point across and make it somewhat palatable, which may or may not be a weakness, the producers have chosen to fall back on the ancient vehicle of psychiatry to explain the important issues. They have further disturbed the story of a young Negro surveyor alone among white soldiers on a dangerous wartime reconnaissance mission by the inclusion of a series of glib, easily-typed characters, each with a varying...
...would seem, by the professional critics of our letters, their camp-followers, and their spiritual confreres, all of whom are afflicted with the need either to treat things seriously or to ignore them altogether. Since Mencken clearly cannot be taken seriously in this day and age, the alternative is chosen, with the result that his books, except for the tomes on the American language, the "Treatise On The Gods," and one or two others, have passed our of print. This situation disappears tomorrow with the publication of "A Mencken Chrestomathy." "Chrestomathy," Mencken reveals in his preface, means "a collection...
Although to American soldiers' eyes the nervous, myopic little man with his bows and headshakings is still something of a comic figure, his Japanese subjects now call him ochitsuite (poised-and-at-his-ease)-a high personal compliment. Hirohito's /ords are few, but well chosen and sometimes surprising. To union bosses at Nagasaki's big Mitsubishi heavy-industry plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children...
...more throughout the U.S. Possibilities Unlimited has employed some of the techniques of Alcoholics Anonymous. When it hears of someone who has just had an amputation, it sends a member to visit him in the hospital, and offer practical advice; so far as possible the visitor is chosen to match the patient in age, general background and type of operation...