Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip to England is the prize for the winner of the lightweight race, since the winner of the Sprints is almost always chosen to represent the United States in the Henley regatta. Princeton is rated the favorite in this race, but it has attained this position only by its fractional win over the Crimson. The two boats are very even and should provide one of the most exciting races...
...1/2-year-old participant in last November's Hungarian Revolution has been chosen by a faculty committee to live in Kirkland House next year as the recipient of a full scholarship endorsed recently by an anonymous donor. It is assumed that he will also be approved by the Admissions Committee...
...refugee is Charles Fenyvesi, who was approved yesterday as the second Hungarian to enter Kirkland by a committee of faculty members connected with the House. He traveled to Cambridge early this week for an interview with the group. He was chosen over several other applicants for his "intelligence, quickness, command of the language, and command of himself," Carl Kaysen, associate profesor of Economics, and chairman of the interviewing committee, said last night...
...feel uncertain about the future: it was ambition also," he said last June. The present generation is in more of a hurry than its forerunners, not from ambition, but because they "have already made up their minds as to where they want to go on the superhighway of their chosen corporation or profession," he stated...
After some negotiation with the U.S. Trust Company of New York, representing the benefactor, the donor agreed to extend the grant so that Heimler's major expenses will also be covered during his three years at the University. The gift was donated "on the condition that the Hungarian be chosen by a Kirkland House committee and reside in Kirkland House," Taylor said...