Word: chosen
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Samuel Cooper once said, "Any man who claims to be a Bostonian and can't tell what the Faneuil Hall weather-vane is, must be an impostor." Faneuil Hall later became known as "the grasshopper market," but no one was quite sure why Shem Drowne had chosen that particular design. The story goes, however, that one day in his youth Shem struck up a conversation with a boy who was chasing a grasshopper. The boy took him home for dinner, and later Shem was adopted by the boy's parents. Years later, remembering the grasshopper that had brought about...
...only is John Lowe the first Canadian ever to be chosen, but at 49 he is one of the youngest vice chancellors in Oxford's history. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he studied at Toronto's Trinity College, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then taught for twelve years at Trinity before returning to Oxford. Over the years, John Lowe has never changed the quiet pattern of his life, and does not intend to change it now. Says he of his new job: "It's just a question of continuity, just a question of carrying...
...voters chosen Harry Truman and given the Democrats sweeping control of both the Senate and the House? For a number of reasons, not the least of which was little old Harry Truman...
...shall die one . . . There never was any such species as Anglo-Irish; and there never will be. It is hard to make Englishmen understand this, because America can change an Englishman into a Yankee before his boots are worn out" Of the "illusion" that "the Irish are The Chosen Race ... I can only say that it exists, and that I share it in spite of reason and commonsense...
...Council, which represents, both Harvard and Radcliffe graduate students, has not yet chosen a full-time representative...