Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope we can do as well as last year," Chief Boston murmured hopefully yesterday, "but it's a little difficult to tell just now because we don't have a squad, the schedule isn't made up, the coaches haven't been chosen, and we haven't worked out the plays...
When the Jayvees are chosen they will probably spend their first few weeks running enemy formations for the Varsity until the Freshman eleven, which traditionally does that job, is organized sufficiently...
Professional artists have sometimes met that challenge by reducing realism to photographic limits; amateurs have generally chosen an easier way out, painting unconsciously formalized, decorative interpretations of their subjects. Both methods are discussed, and well illustrated with 134 examples, in a first-rate history published this week: Wolfgang Bern's Still-Life Painting in America (Oxford...
...Free v. Chosen Instruments. James M. Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, predicted that U.S. airlines flying transatlantic routes (Pan American, T.W.A., American Overseas) would soon be showing profits on Atlantic operations exceeding the airmail subsidies they receive from the Government. Landis discounted the danger of harmful competition from foreign-government-sponsored lines, which might force the U.S. to name and back a "chosen instrument" of its own. "What scares me now," said he, "is that we won't get effective foreign competition." Three days later, President Truman's Air Coordinating Committee, of which Landis...
Most of the Friends' campers are aged 18 to 28. Half are Finnish; the rest come from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Czechoslovakia, the U.S. and Germany. They are chosen by local representatives of the American Friends Service Committee and are sent to Finland for ten-week periods. The men and some of the women work on construction; the rest of the women run the school, the nursery school, and cook for the camp...