Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans call for an executive board made up of one member from each House, ten representatives chosen from team managers and captains, and single representatives from the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Band, WHRV and others. In addition, there will be a working core of more active-members who will rise to the executive board through competitions, which will be open to twenty sophomores each year...
Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias was chosen 1947-3 "woman athlete of the year," in the annual A.P. sportwriters' poll. It was the fourth time for the versatile Babe, the third time in a row as a golfer. She was also woman of the year in 1932 (when she broke the Olympic hurdling and javelin records...
Once again, as they had for 700 years, the chosen priests of Japan's Nichiren Buddhist sect trouped to the temple of Hokkekyo to undergo 100 days of purification and study. At the temple gateway stood Chief Priest Nissei Nakakita, asking the novices for six times last year's entrance fee. For three months of contemplation and 700 duckings in the ice-cold waters of the temple pump, 58 novices paid the inflated rate. Outside "the door that is not opened" devoted followers waited eagerly for their cries as freezing water coursed down their naked bodies...
...chosen for this huge medical job is a top expert in mass medicine : Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, who resigned last fall as medical director of the Veterans Administration after doing a "miracle" job of reorganization (TIME, Oct. 13). Dr. Hawley, a stocky 56, described his new job as that of "catalytic agent." One example of what he will have to tackle: coordinating 139 plans so that a national corporation can give its employees both hospital and doctor insurance in one "package." Another: working out a national average charge while keeping enough flexibility in local plans to meet varying conditions...
...members of the Cambridge City Council. Their acting is well nigh flawless. The plot is centered around the futile and ludicrous efforts of a City Council to elect a mayor from among the members of the Council. To date they have held 319 ballots, and no one has been chosen, though at a point early in the balloting one of the actors had four votes and needed only his own to make him mayor of the city. Fortunately he was too modest to vote for himself. That would have spoiled the whole performance...