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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman intramurals, the only '63 dorm team to oppose Yale was chosen yesterday, although Weld South and Grays Hall battled to a 0-0 tie in touch football. Grays was elected to face the Yale freshman dorm champions because of its 7-6 win over Matthews North, which Weld tied. Grays nearly won the Weld game yesterday in the second period when a pass over the goal line failed because the receiver was beyond the end zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Beats Dunster In Soccer Playoff, 3-1 | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...Johnson-chosen director of the Democrats' senatorial campaign committee, Clements moved fast last week to label the party victory in Kentucky "the beginning of what is going to happen in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kentucky Earthquake | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Christ] does not make me a saint." In 1957 Jackson wrote to The $64,000 Question, said he planned a book about quizzes (working title: Hucksters and Suckers), asked for help. The producers took the hint. Back came an invitation for Stony to audition as a contestant. The category chosen for the pastor: great love stories. After producers fed him the romantic answers in "screening" sessions, he rolled up $20,000 on CBS's $64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge. What happened to the money? The minister spent some on himself, gave $12,000 to a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How It Was Done | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Each of last season's presentation's (La Boheme, Barber of Seville, and Gay's The Beggar's Opera) pointed out that Operation Opera most needs improvement in orchestral performance. The instrumentalists are almost entirely chosen from the ranks of the Boston Symphony but they play without adequate rehearsal and sound like members of the Boston University Orchestra (a compliment to neither organization). Miss Caldwell adds to the confusion by conducting incompetently...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Operation Opera | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

James Joyce harbored throughout his life a compulsive need to feel himself betrayed. Perhaps it helped him to maintain his chosen stance of lonely, lofty defiance of the "trolls," as he called the common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dublin's Prodigal Son | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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