Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approximately 50 singers will be chosen for the tour on the basis of musical ability. They will fly west early in the summer, stopping for one or two concerts in the Midwest and on the West Coast, probably in Los Angeles or San Francisco...
Robert H. L. Slater, professor of World Religions, emphasized that Harvard had been chosen as the site of the new center "due to the facilities and scholars now at the University." He cited the number of professor at Harvard already engaged in studies of comparative religions and the extensive program of language studies as factors in the decision...
...whole historical crowd is there --from Priam all the way to the face that launched a thousand ships. But some of them you might not recognize right away. Giraudoux has chosen his Trojan locale with malice afore-thought. He seems to delight in slipping in anachronistic elements, such as references to the "middle class." Entering the spirit of the thing, director John Beck appears to have added a few of his own: one bare-chested sailor sports a tattoo reading "Mother" --but in Greek, of course...
...NCAA championship tournament. Bridge-port has already been named the New England representative, and a possible at-large bid would probably be offered to Williams or Trinity before either Yale or Harvard received consideration. There remains a slim chance, however, that either the Crimson or the Blue will be chosen, and neither wants to kill its chances by losing today...
...often Eisenhower appointees have been men of small distinction, chosen from regulated businesses," Meyner charged. "Those who should be safeguarding the interests of the public have too many times proved to be the servants of the very industries over whom they have been set as watchdogs...