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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61, of Winthrop House and New York City, vice-president, Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61 of Adams House and Mahopac, New York, treasurer, and Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. '61 of Dunster House and New York City, secretary were also chosen...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Student Council Elects Croman New President | 1/15/1959 | See Source »

...elected with only about 200 votes, while at the same time 900 other voters in the class might distinctly not want to have this man in office. This situation could be ameliorated considerably by having a preliminary election in which six or eight leaders are chosen who will then participate in a run-off election to determine the final three Marshals. Such a system would, by eliminating the large number of favorite-entry candidates, assure the winner of having at least the passive support of a large percentage of the class. Presumably such an election would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Marshals | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

Adams House will add an Elizabethan apron to the regular stage for their production, presently being cast from members of the House. Female roles will be chosen some time in February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Winthrop Plan Productions | 1/13/1959 | See Source »

...debate, Rule XXII now requires the votes of two-thirds of the Senators "duly chosen and sworn"-a hard-to-get 66 votes in the 98-member Senate of the 86th Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: BATTLE OF THE SENATE | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Once chosen by a jury including Pianist Artur Rubinstein to play on a radio teenage talent program (Prokofiev. Debussy), Brooklyn-born Neil Sedaka explains his turn from serious music in a flack-flavored burst of prose: "The kids who used to throw rocks at me now roll with me." Sedaka's lyrics, like those of his contemporaries, have the air of frenzied discontent that hooks the teen trade. "Today," says one record executive, "you gotta have Weltschmerz with the beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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