Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upperclass voters will choose from a ballot containing two lists of candidates, Juniors and Sophomores being named separately. Those eligible as voters may choose up to four men on each list in order of preference so that each completed ballot should contain eight names. Two men will be chosen from each category to represent their class on the Council...
...months ago the University of Buffalo awarded its Chancellor's Medal to the president of Bell Aircraft Corp. with an impressive citation: "Lawrence Dale Bell. . . . You have won undisputed leadership in your chosen calling and have dignified Buffalo in the eyes of the world...
...what they have experienced to men who, never having known the experience, will never quite understand the report. Franz Kafka ventured across the barrier, reported with an apparent lucidity the cryptographs of silence, and was little understood. "Franz Kafka," wrote Franz Werfel, "was a messenger from above, a great chosen...
...Arabs, in numerical majority in the Holy Land, and, perhaps, hoping for Russian votes in the special assembly, seek an independent Palestine-which would give them immediate control. This catastrophic plan will not be adopted, for the United States supports the British view that only an investigating committee be chosen now. But even this Anglo-American proposal is frustrating and inconclusive. Not only have numerous impartial groups submitted reports on Palestine in the past dozen years, (the most recent was the Anglo-American Commission on Inquiry last spring) but it has already been stated in the House of Lords that...
...What is clear today, is that major subjects are chosen primarily for vocational motives with little though of what particular 'intellectual disciplines' may be involved," he asserted...