Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only answer left was to meet force with the threat of force, wherever the U.S. could best apply it. The U.S. would have to underwrite Europe's economic recovery with military force. The area which the U.S. policymakers had chosen for the main effort, the most probable route of the enemy's advance, was the rich industrial heartland of Western Europe. That was why the U.S. was prepared to back Western Union...
...seven of the first ten players back again usually is full of glowing predictions about an undefeated season. But lacrosse mentor Bob Maddux still shakes his head and says the three men he lost by graduation were the best on the squad. Eddie Davis, now J.V. shepherd, was chosen second All-American at defense; Jay Hurley set up nearly all the Crimson goals; and big Ned Dewey threw the roughest bodycheck on the squad...
With the winter sports schedules now a closed affair, letter winners of three Varsity teams elected captains for 1948-49 and had their pictures taken for posterity yesterday. Jeremy W. Gorman '49 of Kirkland House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, was chosen swimming captain, Daniel B. Ray '49 of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, N. Y., was picked as wrestling captain, and John W. Ager, Jr. '49 of Kirkland House and Birmingham, Alabama, was elected to lead the fencers. James J. Tracy '50 of Eliot House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, was appointed swimming manager...
...elections of Gorman, Ray and Ager leave only the basketball team without a leader chosen for the next snow season. Final decision from the quintet will not come until captain George Hauptfuhrer returns from the East-West game. Straus Cup Standing ELIOT 781 1/2 WINTHROP 745 LEVERETT 654 LOWELL 647 1/2 DUNSTER 633 KIRKLAND 616 ADAMS 529 DUDLEY...
Harvard was chosen as a Russian Research Center by the Carnegie Foundation because of the facilities which it offered in many fields. It is beyond doubt that the work of this group will involve research in geography, but the success of that research will be undermined by the stoppage of much of the activity at the Institute...