Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good will and learning tour was planned in 1939 but was delayed ten years by the war. This year's 29 students were chosen from a total of 300 who applied for the chance to make the trip...
Whichever site is chosen, whoever finances it, the coming of a steel mill is an event that all New England can look forward to eagerly. It may well be the end of the gradual slump which this area has felt since the textile shutdowns in 1921; possibly, New England can one day rival the midwest in basic industrial strength. As one commenter put it, "When New England gets a steel mill, it will begin a new era of leadership in American industry...
...Fallen Idol," an English production based on a short story by Graham Greone, was chosen as England's best film of 1948, and has been collecting rave reviews here. Most of the praise is deserved. The photography is subtle and brilliant, a fresh realistic idiom for the moviegoer lulled by the stylized American technique, that, together with masterful directing, (by Carol Reed, director of Odd Man Out), and superb acting, raise a weaker plot to excellent drama...
...faced with a painful choice between two evils: to continue in full defiance and risk wholesale persecution, or try to salvage as much as it could of its organization by coming to some sort of terms with the state and playing for time. Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty had chosen the uncompromising course; despite his stand, the church in Hungary was forced to submit to state control. In a directive to priests which explains their reasons for choosing the course of compromise, the Czech Council of Bishops wrote: "It is necessary to... save you for the spiritual care...
Most notable fact of all: Cooper Union's 1,400 students (chosen by stiff competitive exams which eliminate five out of six applicants) still got their tuition, as the founder intended, free of charge...