Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They also would be more disinterested in their recommendations than would the House Committees (which might tend to nominate their own). The tutors should not just be casually consulted, but explicitly asked to submit recommendations to the Masters. If the Masters were presented with a list of qualified, wisely chosen, available House members, they would have a much easier selection and the Council would have a more competent and effective membership...
...Eastern Seaboard-the hour of shopping at the supermarket or of getting ready for a business lunch-when word flashed from Rome that a new Pope had been chosen. It was 9:07 a.m. on the West Coast-time to make breakfast or to drive to work-when the flickering radio signal carried the voice of Cardinal Canali announcing, in his soft, Italianate Latin: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum-habemus papam." The press, whose attention for days had been focused on the smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel, promptly provided both great clouds and small wisps of facts about...
...stage they give cutey-cute lectures on marriage which, on a midstage merry-go-round-like set, they themselves help illustrate. As The Marriage-Go-Round's third or G-string, Actress Newmar plays an amply built Swedish blonde who. from out the whole world, has chosen Boyer to give her a child. Her body, she informs him, "is primed in readiness," nor is her use or adornment of it ever marred by reticence. While Colbert, who knows what's up, waits and wonders and attempts to act wise, Boyer first laughs off, then warns off, then fights...
...award is the first of a series to be made annually to "the outstanding Harvard or Radcliffe College senior graduating summa cum laude in economics." The recipient is chosen by the Economics Department...
...reason I have chosen existentialist writers is not because of the conclusions they have reached," Earle says. "They aren't important. It's not a religion you have to believe in. My feeling is you must be disciplined in classical philosophy--but that it's the existentialists who have hit on interesting content...